Reading Ajay Devgn as a filmmaker: Sophisticated craft in conflict with stale writing; will Runway 34 change that?
Ajay Devgn’s previous directorials clearly display the ability that can match his intent to desi-fy his Hollywood influences. It seems he just cannot avoid one consistent pitfall – He appears convinced the Hindi film audience is looking for only star vehicles. Apart from some terrible background compositing and classical desi anti-gravity moments, Shivaay had stylistic touches that Devgn should see as wins, despite the overall middling reactions to the film. The first time his daughter is taken from him, the action sequence that follows is so audaciously excessive, Devgn so heroically manages to ensure that his daughter is _almost_ never kidnapped in the first place, that they could have ended the film right there, kidnapping averted; and all it would have led to is some mild audience annoyance about it not being as long as a Bollywood film ought to be. I would not claim to know any better than him, but I do know that the dependable pan-Indian Hindi film audience clearly is not patronizing Bollywood films the way they used to.
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