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      Issaq

      2013 2h 28m Drama Romance List
      Reviews Two well-known families are feuding sand mafias in the city of Banaras. Things take a turn for the worse when one family's son and the other family's daughter fall in love. Read More Read Less

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      Shubhra Gupta The Indian Express [Issaq] stays consistently high-pitched and doused in blood and bullets and melodrama. Rated: 1.5/5 Mar 19, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A terrible, terrible movie. It is so bad, even the Director left it after the first 2 minutes and let the catering crew finish it up. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member It's remarkable that filmmakers still find Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a great source material to fiddle with. This fascination ranges from psychedelic musicals to animations featuring gnomes. But Issaq, from Manish Tiwary, comes off as a miserably offensive adaptation of the timeless play. Set in Varanasi, the feuding families here are the Mishras and the Kashyaps. Both families want to take control over the illegal sand-mining business and are least bothered about the law when it comes to guns and murders. When Rahul Mishra (Prateik Babbar) falls for Bacchi Kashyap (Amyra Dastur), a doomed romance flickers. A mix of blood, gore and violence is then stoked on the banks of Ganges. It feels like Manish Tiwary skipped all of his rewriting sessions in the haste to finish the film. The narrative aimlessly meanders with abrupt plot twists and a loud background score that completely work against the atmosphere and the flow of the film. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet seems less obvious as Tiwary wastes too much time on cramming in lighter moments instead of presenting a focused love story. All the characters feel like aspiring stand-up comedians because every one chips in with witty one-liners which start to become unfunny after few minutes. There are also these surreal sequences that pop up regularly in the movie. With a cheap VFX patch-up work, the rawness of Varanasi is lost in the film's look and the actors' forced accent do little to make us believe in them. Issaq may have been conceived as a political satire with an edge towards a generation old fable but it takes itself too lightly. Just like a regular Indian soap-opera, it has no point to prove. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Two well-known families are feuding sand mafias in the city of Banaras. Things take a turn for the worse when one family's son and the other family's daughter fall in love.
      Director
      Manish Tiwary
      Screenwriter
      Manish Tiwary, Pawan Sony
      Production Co
      Paramhans Creations & Movies n More
      Genre
      Drama, Romance
      Original Language
      Hindi
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 11, 2017
      Runtime
      2h 28m