Wazir (2016)

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Wazir is that the story of a hot-headed ATS officer, Daanish Ali (Farhan Akhtar), who loses his four-year-old daughter during a shootout with terrorists.





Wazir’ is about the coming together of two wounded men, very different in age and temperament, for a mutual purpose. Danish Ali (Farhan Akhtar) is recovering, with excruciating slowness, from a deeply personal tragedy; his wife Ruhana (Aditi Rao Hydari) is suffering too, in her own solitary corner. He meets up with the wheelchair-bound Pandit Omkarnath Dhar (Amitabh Bachchan), and gets sucked into the latter’s world, which is full of light and darkness, the contradictions arising from a painful past loss, and a present trying to come to terms with it.

Beside himself with grief, he defies his superiors and barges in on a commando raid on a cell to hunt revenge. He kills the terrorist, but gets suspended from the force for exceeding his brief. His wife, Kathak exponent Ruhaana (Aditi Rao Hydari), doesn't forgive him for his recklessness and walks out on him. Daanish finds solace within the company of a chess player , the wheelchair-bound Pandit Omkar Nath Dhar (Amitabh Bachchan), who, on his part, has also had a tragic live. The older gentleman, who lost his legs and his wife during a serious accident, has reason to believe that the recent mysterious death of his only daughter was a murder. 



He enlists Daanish’s help to get to the bottom of the case against all odds. He has got to deal with a strong politician (Manav Kaul) with a really dark secret buried during a village in Kashmir Valley. It is a dauntingly difficult and dangerous fight, but Daanish plunges into the mission to make sure that his new friend gets justice. One night, Panditji is attacked by a person called Wazir (Neil Nitin Mukesh). The latter makes his allegiances and intentions as clear as daylight. 

The first half Wazir is intriguing and brisk enough to carry the eye of the audience. But post-interval, the film loses momentum. The screenplay (Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi) leaves nothing to the imagination. The battle lines between the villain and therefore the vengeance seekers are so clearly, then quickly, drawn that the audience has no guesswork to try to to . As a consequence, Wazir surrenders its trump rather too tamely. Despite the riveting performances by Bachchan and Akhtar, the film isn't the humdinger that it could are with sharper treatment. Hydari is shortchanged by the script. Her character is given little space to develop fully. Yet, she makes an impact , especially within the scenes where she is allowed to speak together with her silences. Kaul, too, has limited footage but doesn't let that are available the way of his performance.

 

Wazir isn't half the film that it could have had the script had left a touch more within the shadows rather than taking recourse to over-explication.

But all said and done, Wazir is anything but a washout. Watch it for the sustained quality of the acting.

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