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Review of the film Haryana: It’s funny and has good acting, but it’s too long

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Review of the film Haryana: It’s funny and has good acting, but it’s too long

Three brothers named Mahender, Jaibeer, and Jugnu reside in a village in the state of Haryana. Mahender, the oldest brother, serves as the household’s father figure and is responsible for looking after everyone and everything. The youngest and most spoiled of the brothers, Jugnu, is the middle brother and attends a college in Hisar. The trio are followed as they fall in love and experience what that means for each of them.

Review: The film opens with a panoramic view of a misty canal and lush greenery before cutting to a rowdy wedding with loud louts dancing silly and imbibing themselves silly. This is a typical introduction to the North Indian state. In between, Mahender (Yash Tonk), a straightforward yet considerate character, is introduced.

Mahender is too busy running the business and taking care of his younger brothers to have time for love. His future wife Bimla (Ashlesha Sawant), who he eventually decides to marry, teaches him that he doesn’t even understand what love is. Due to his physical limitations, Jaibeer (Robbie Mairh) finds it awkward to express his feelings for Vasudha (Monika Sharma), while Jugnu (Aakarshan Singh), a movie buff, is madly in love with Alia Bhatt. The movie is about the twist in fate that each character’s love story causes.

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With this film, television actor Sandeep Baswana makes his directing debut. He exhibits promise as the ship’s new captain. The idea that the love stories of the brothers are so dissimilar is an intriguing one. Casteism, politics, culture shock, and other topics are combined in the film, making it seem disjointed. Another downer is the sloppy screenplay and nearly three-hour running time. The story drags on for too long and eventually loses its charm. In terms of cinematography, the film does well.

A boy’s job is to turn on and off the tube light for the disco lights effect, and Jugnu goes with apples and bananas to propose to Alia, two examples of the quirks of country bumpkins that have been well-depicted. The three actors, Yash, Robbie, and Aakarshan, all deliver proficient performances. It’s nice to see Ashlesha Sawant as a modest, shy, but intelligent, and independent young woman. The middle brother’s love story is more intriguing, even though Jugnu’s track is the most entertaining, largely due to his three friends and their antics. Jaibeer is a tough guy who, in response to unreciprocated love, takes a drastic action and tries to make things right. The simplicity with which disputes are resolved (even when they involve complicated issues like caste-related violence against lovers and good guys Mahender succeeds in elections) puts the movie off-track

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Khan, the most successful actor in Bollywood, made ₹25000 cr at the box office, surpassing the combined earnings of Shah Rukh, Salman Khan, and Aamir Khan.

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Khan, the most successful actor in Bollywood, made ₹25000 cr at the box office, surpassing the combined earnings of Shah Rukh, Salman Khan, and Aamir Khan.

With a cumulative gross of ₹25000 crore at the box office, this ‘non superstar’ may just be the most successful Indian actor ever. But there is a small catch.
It is a testament to their domination of Hindi cinema that the three Khans have starred in most of the highest-grossing Bollywood films over the last three decades. One or the other of Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and Aamir Khan have led 90% of the biggest films in Hindi cinema during this period. So one would assume that Bollywood’s ‘most successful’ Khan would be either of these three. But that depends on what metric one chooses for success. If it is simply box office collections globally, then a fourth name – a rather surprising one at that – beats these three superstars. (Also read: Aamir Khan says him, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan are looking forward to working together)

Bollywood’s most successful Khan

As lead stars, there is no denying Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and Aamir Khan’s box office pull. In their career, they are the top draw at the ticket window. Shah Rukh’s films have collectively earned just under ₹9000 crore at the box office worldwide, while Salman ( ₹7000 crore) and Aamir ( ₹6500 crore) follow closely behind. Together, their films (including overlaps like Karan Arjun and Andaz Apna Apna) have earned ₹22,000 crore. But the figure is less than what the films featuring the late Irrfan Khan have earned. Courtesy of his stellar Hollywood career that allowed him to star in many big blockbusters, Irrfan was able to leap past his more popular Bollywood colleagues. In a career that spanned over 25 years, Irrfan’s Indian films earned just over ₹2000 crore. But the bulk of his box office earnings came from his Hollywood releases, which have a combined gross of over $2.5 billion ( ₹22,500 crore).

However, one might argue that the OG Khans still win this as most of their films had them in the lead, while Irrfan was largely playing the supporting role to bigger stars like Chris Pratt (Jurassic World), Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man), and Tom Hanks (Inferno).

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Irrfan Khan’s stellar Hollywood career

Irrfan made a name for himself in Hindi cinema in the early 2000s with critically acclaimed performances in Haasil, Maqbool, Life in a Metro, and Paan Singh Tomar. His breakthrough in the West came with a supporting role in Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. This led to small but significant roles in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Life of Pi (2012), Jurassic World (2015), and Inferno (2016). His last English language film, Puzzle, starred him in the lead role alongside Kelly Macdonald. Irrfan was diagnosed with cancer in 2018, to which he succumbed in 2020. He was 53.

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