Ram setu reviews

Director: Abhishek Sharma Writer: Abhishek Sharma Cast: Akshay Kumar, Nassar, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Satyadev Kancharana, Pravesh Rana For the first 30 minutes of Ram Setu, There’s more. Minutes later, we see Aryan at a press conference in Islamabad after escaping a Taliban attack in Bamiyan. He publicly agrees to share the spoils with Pakistan, and even silences an Indian journalist who questions this decision. “Dharm sirf todta hai, sanskruti sabko jodti hai (Religion divides, culture unites),” declares Aryan, with sage-like calm. Back home in Delhi, his wife, Gayatri, expresses her displeasure at local newspaper headlines targeting Aryan’s magnanimity. She is revealed to be a chaste Hindu lady from Varanasi, and his son, Kabir, reads Bal Ganesh comics in his spare time. Aryan teases them because he is an atheist who only “believes in things that can be proven”. I found myself nodding along vigorously: The man is so right, it hurts. Soon enough, the plot delves into the real-life dispute surrounding the titular bridge. Aryan submits an affidavit stating that the Ram Setu – which, according to the Ramayana, was the bridge built by Lord Ram’s Hanuman-led Vanara (monkey) army to rescue Sita from Ravana’s clutches in Lanka – is not a man-made structure. He’s only doing his job. He is promptly suspended, left by his wife and attacked by right-wing goons at his son’s school. Aryan vows to clear his name; an industrialist (of course he’s named Indrakant) off...

RAM SETU is the story of an archeologist’s life-changing expedition. The year is 2007. Dr. Aryan Kulshrestha (Akshay Kumar) goes to Bamyan, Afghanistan for a joint expedition with a Pakistani team. Here, he excavates ancient treasure belonging to an Indian king. Suddenly, the Talibans attack the site. Aryan escapes, but ... at the same time, he manages to take the treasure chest with him. At a press conference, he happens to speak about being an atheist and it grabs all the headlines, more than how he risked his life to preserve history. Meanwhile, Indrakant (Nassar), owner of Pushpak Shipping, requests the government of India to dismantle the Ram Setu, as part of his Sethusamudram Project. He believes this will save fuel and reduce the travel time between India and Sri Lanka. This leads to massive anger in the country and a petition is filed in the Supreme Court. The government, which is hand in gloves with Indrakant, takes the help of the Archeological Society of India (ASI). Aryan has just been promoted as Joint Director General of the ASI. The government feels an atheist like him can help them. He is asked to submit a report stating that Ram Setu is a naturally made structure and is not man-made. Aryan asks for time to research on this, but he's not allowed to do so. The report submitted by him, however, also raises question on Ramayana. It leads to a major controversy. But Indrakant is happy. He asks him to go to Ram Setu and prove to the world that it is not man-made...

Though this film Ram Setu, director Abhishek Sharma appears to have decided to convince his film’s audience that archaeological facts scream out loud about the existence of the Ram Setu bridge and that it was built by men — after the birth of Lord Rama — and not a natural formation as claimed by some geologists. A caveat from me before I go any further: The review is based solely on the cinematic experience of the two-and-a-half hour movie and does not take into consideration religious beliefs or political affiliations. In the beginning of the movie, the slide of Cape of Good Films, which is in charge of the movie production, has a hidden message for those who are willing to read the signs and are not waiting for the obvious. Like most of his movies, this Akshay Kumar movie is also completely dependent upon his star power. However, when an actor tries to pursue social agenda through his films, he would end up being the postman of the cause and affects the movie’s credibility. In this movie, Akshay Kumar portrays the role of a person who lives on empirical data and scientific proof, and not opinions and beliefs. The scene where he speaks about Ram Setu in the court hints that metamorphosis of opinion is the offing. However, the actor’s change of heart is so abrupt that it seems that the director has taken the common sense of the audience for granted. While he gets on the wrong side of the system, and "the government" is blamed for supporting the rouge industrialist Indrakan...

Express News Service “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence,” wrote Christopher Hitchens in God Is Not Great. It’s a quote I half-expected to stream forth from the mouth of Dr Aryan Kulshrestha (Akshay Kumar), an atheist archaeologist obsessed with ‘facts’ and ‘hard evidence’ in Abhishek Sharma’s Ram Setu. No soap. Aryan has no use for the Hitchen’s razor (or any razor, given his splendidly fuzzy white whiskers). He’s an atheist in the same way certain Amitabh Bachchan characters in the 70s and 80s were atheists: as a set-up for a turnabout further ahead. This film about the origins of the Ram Setu—a 48-km chain of shoals between India and Sri Lanka that many believe is the eponymous bridge mentioned in the Ramayana—opens, befuddling, in Afghanistan, after Taliban forces have destroyed the Bamyan Buddha statutes. Aryan, joining a crack team of foreign archaeologists, is researching there when they’re set upon by more terrorists. Aryan escapes — but not before retrieving a chest of ancient coins linked to the reign of Dahir of Ahor, the last Hindu king of Sindh. “Religion divides but culture unites,” he later says, sagely, at a press conference. How wonderful! How secular! Surely the headlines back home will agree? Returning to India, Aryan wades into controversy, and, to make matters worse, is made the Director General of the Archeological Survey of India. There he prepares (or is forced to prepare) a report challenging the historicit...

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Dr. Aryan Kulshrestha (Akshay Kumar) is a world renowned archaeologist who is asked by the government to prove that Ram Setu, which exists between India and Sri Lanka is actually a natural formation and not a man-made structure. His wife Gayatri (Nushrratt Bharuccha) warns him not to take up the controversial projects as it might earn him the ire of the masses. He still proceeds to do so and is seen as a villain by the society. The public sentiment is against the dismantling of the bridge and hence the government needs more proof. They set him up with a moneybags investor (Nassar), who has his own interest in the destruction of the bridge. He's provided with a state-of-the-art floating lab to gather concrete evidence. However, the physical evidence gathered under the water starts pointing towards the fact that its indeed man-made. That's when things get awry. The industrialist wants Aryan and his team to be eliminated. How they escape death and come back to India in time to stop the destruction of the bridge forms the crux of the film. The film juxtaposes fact and fiction to make for a compelling case for making us believe that things described in the Ramayana are not folklore or mythology but actual history. The film takes us through the jungles of Sri Lanka to various sites mentioned in the holy epic and makes us form our own opinion about their authenticity. The film couldn't be shot on actual locations because of the coronavirus pandemic and hence various parts of Indi...