Kangana Ranaut Shines in ‘Emergency’: Her Powerful Performance as Indira Gandhi is the Highlight of this Political Film

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Emergency movie review: Good performances from the cast, including Kangana Ranaut, can only do so much for a script as slack as this.


Emergency movie review: I went inside the cinema to watch Emergency, and that prosthetic nose on Kangana Ranaut’s face, trying to help her look like the late Indira Gandhi- along with those involuntary facial twitches- made it pretty clear ‘this is going to be a caricaturish portrayal’.

Movie reviews normally begin with a little bit about the story and the pace, not flaws about the actors in charge straight away. But much like she says in the film ‘Indira is India, and India is Indira’, Emergency too can stand as a film only because of Kangana, who changes your perception about it as things progress.

The Concept Behind Emergency

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The political thriller starts by tracing the events that led to the imposition of the Emergency in India in 1975. With a supporting cast like the late Satish Kaushik, Shreyas Talpade, and Anupam Kher, the film’s treatment feels like a political science lesson.

And that might just make you reach out for your smartphone- not to research, but check messages and your social media. Attention spans of viewers have been going down over the years, so all this clearly doesn’t help.

The intention is right though- Indira’s hamartia here is she feels she’s impossible to mess with. But the film does not believe in subtlety-for instance, Indira’s remorse for imposing the Emergency did not need to be explained through ghastly mirror reflections. Kangana emoting it was enough. Similarly, focusing the camera on the picture of a lioness and then on Kangana’s face- we get the point!

What works and what doesn’t

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The execution goes wrong, and some scenes border on the comedic in the first half.


It’s at the intermission point when Indira declares the emergency, and at that time you’re on your last breath. But by this time, with a change of gears when you settle back to your seats again, Kangana finally gets control of things. Some power-packed moments mixed with some emotionally charged ones are enough to rescue Emergency. Kangana, being an actor, is good, so you are willing to forgive her for that prosthetic nose. Watch out for her, especially in the scene she has where she faces a huge personal los

Film’s music… did we actually require all these celebrated personalities to burst out in songs? Two such lip-sync sequences are odd. Ae Meri Jaan, with Hariharan, though, has soothing sweetness to it and has been appropriately used.

Emergency doesn’t appear to want to whitewash or blacken Indira’s doings. Whatever happened during Emergency under her regime, the death of her son Sanjay Gandhi- Kangana, the director, has balanced it well. As per requirement, Anupam gives restrained performance while late Satish does justice to a single line. What an actor!

In brief, the effort by Emergency to pack into this one film anything it could allows it to be sloppy. It is by all means watchable only if you want to see good acting. Then what’s good acting without an exciting story?

About Movie Emergency:

Emergency, produced by Zee Studios and Kangana’s Manikarnika Films, stars Anupam Kher, Satish Kaushik, Shreyas Talpade, Mahima Chaudhary, and Milind Soman among others in this period political thriller. The film is slated to release in cinemas on January 17, marking the 50th year since the imposition of the Emergency.

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