Ayan Mukerji’s fantasy film Brahmāstra—out on Disney+ Hotstar after a theatrical run—is an outright disaster on several fronts.
It wastes its massive budget on sub-par visual effects, routinely forgets that it has to write meaningful scenes for Alia Bhatt’s female lead, and reduces Amitabh Bachchan to an exposition machine.
We also discuss the film’s failure on both a narrative and visual level, and how all of this is in service of a story that is cribbed from the likes of Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Last Airbender.
Despite all that, Brahmāstra still has the audacity to suggest that it could spawn a franchise.
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