Back with Sikandar Ka Muqaddar, and Neeraj Pandey, who always had a penchant for suspense dramas along the lines of A Wednesday & Special 26. The movie brought to the screen featuring a strong-will cast and strong-will individuals must achieve the goal of presenting the audience with a film dedicated to betrayal, greed, and ambition. But it seems the movie itself suffers from this approach, and the audience never gets breathing space throughout its lengthy period.
Plot Overview
The movie revolves around Sikandar a genius planner with a great visualization skill who selects his smart talented team of criminals to do a robbery on a well-guarded treasure house. Such a plan is well thought out, it involves both trickery, technology, and sheer muscle power. However, as if unveiling the layers of an onion, betrayal, and mistrust emerge, pushing the events down Abaddon’s spiral.
Strengths
- Stellar Performances: The cast especially Sikandar Arshad has done a commendable job in his performance. The character development is fairly tangible, and the casting is good; The main heroes both look and act like real people – at the same time tender and tough.
- Technical Brilliance: The motion picture does a good job of depicting the size and periodicity of the theft. Despite that, it keeps readers engaged and involves Pandey’s signature style of creating suspense through the editing style.
- Dialogues: At some passes, the dialogues are well written and come out effective, especially during fighting scenes of the characters.
Weaknesses
- Bloated Runtime: The true-life story stretches to almost three hours which makes the film long and boring. As interesting as many of the side stories are, perhaps some of them could have been excluded to keep the pace higher.
- Predictability: However, this well-constructed scenario should be the best childhood film, but it has a trivial plot. Some bends and turns meet the audience for the first time as if they were developed very recently and do not add freshness to the movie.
- Lack of Relief: Even though it was 15 minutes long, Pandey’s overall somber narrative delivery becomes oppressive. One of the things that distinguished earlier films with grit from KRK was solid doses of humor mixed with action, however in Sikandar Ka Muqaddar, the film loses the chance amid extreme tension both comic and touching scenes that could have been spared its audience’s sore eyes.
Highlights
One should recall the complex procedure of the heist as one of the most impressive from both visual and narrative perspectives. Pandey does the best job of shooting the tension in the actual execution through the use of close-up shots and a rising soundtrack. However, in return for this incoherent structure, the message becomes quite weak regarding its climax.
Final Verdict
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar is a classic example of what Neeraj Pandey does best, in terms of direction, assembling a slick and high-stakes heist movie. At the same time, the work has an excessive number of pages, has no new idea, and has no humor either. This is not to say that there are not some moments of sheer exhilarating kinetic energy or that avid fans of the genre may not find something to like it is not so it is completely off the mark when it comes to delivering what the trailer promises.
