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Panga Movie Review: Kangana Ranaut takes Panga and gets it right
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari shows frustration and angst beautifully in this Kangana Ranaut starrer, says our Panga movie review. Little Adi stands out in an otherwise star-studded film.
HIGHLIGHTS
Kangana Ranaut's performance remind us of Queen.
Richa Chadha delivers a solid performance in Panga.
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari presents a feel good watch in Panga.
Movie Name:Panga
Cast:Kangana Ranaut, Richa Chadha
Director:Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Queen till date remains Kangana Ranaut’s best performance. Despite the popularity she achieved post Tanu Weds Manu, and Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi recently. Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga is right up there next to Queen. Welcome back Kangana, we missed you.
Panga essentially is a story about regaining confidence in one’s self. It goes beyond just skill, for that the person sitting next to you, wreaking havoc on the keyboard right now, also has. We are in fact surrounded by skilful people, who are where they are because they deserve it. And so do we. It is that confidence that is most fragile, it is that confidence that suffers the biggest hits.
Jaya (Kangana) is 32, married, and mother of a seven-year-old. Prashant (Jassie Gill), her husband, loves her, respects her and more importantly, understands what she gave up to choose this life. So, what did she give up? Not just kabaddi and a spot in the national team right before the Asia Cup; she gave up her dream. Playing for the Railway Kabaddi Team has landed her a job, where there’s no respect or recognition, but there is stability. Jaya today specialises in aaloo ke parathe, but her eyes gleam when she bites into that occasional slice of pizza she is sharing with her family in front of the television set.
On the opposite end of the spectrum is Meenu (Richa Chadha), same age as Jaya, unmarried, no kids, and currently coaching aspiring young girls in kabaddi. "Jab ladka tumhe dabochne ki koshish kare, pao se pakde, toh edi ko aise twist karo, aur patli gali se line ke uss par chale jaao," she paints a more realistic picture so a girl in a small city like Bhopal can relate to while she charts her gaming strategy on the mat
Director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Bhopal is as real as it gets. The railway quarter with a loft in the kitchen where a room heater and a sandwich maker plays peek-a-boo, neatly packed in the boxes they came in, is so middle-class that it feels like home. But her setting is not a character in the story - it’s just there inconspicuously, furthering a Jaya and a Prashant’s story. They are ordinary people, middle-class, with middle-class dreams and limits, stemming from a middle-class conditioning.
One such conditioning comes in the way of a bubbling desire in Jaya to make a comeback into the kabaddi team at 32. Motherhood. Even as Adi (Yagya Bhasin), her son, hands her a glass of milk because she needs physical strength to get back into the game, Jaya is torn. "Main chali jaungi toh ghar
That, again, is a double-edged sword. Because the audience already loves a good underdog story, shall we keep sticking to it? Panga in that sense plays to the gallery. Jaya trains and she trains hard, but the ease at which she overcomes her drawbacks, overpowers younger, fitter girls on the mat, is a stretch. Let's not forget she was out-of-practice for a good seven years. And while Serena Williams (an example used in the film) is a mother of one, winning Grand Slams after Grand Slams (she's at 23 wins right now), she never took a seven-year-long break.
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