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Produced by Dharma Productions, the film is now being remade in Hollywood read more
Lakshya and Raghav Juyal’s Kill has been largely promoted and praised for its action by the makers and international critics. For them, this isn’t the form of filming or storytelling they have experienced in any Hindi film prior. Produced by Dharma Productions, the film is now being remade in Hollywood.
However, multiple reports suggested it would be remade in India too but Dharma Productions has refuted such claims:
The conflict is simple. A woman is in danger. The man she loves is a commando. Who else will do the rescuing? The visceral and unflinching violence could be discomforting and dangerous for viewing, but the film revels in its ugly bloodbath and bone-chilling close-ups. The more you suffer, the closer you’re filmed. But Nagesh and his co-writer Ayesha Syed don’t reduce the men on the other side of law as caricaturist cartoons. They weep, they scream, they are brutally bruised, and they too suffer from a state of anger and anxiety. But Kill is also marred by a sea of clichés that heap up consecutively towards the end. The villain wastes his time monologuing and reminding the hero how he massacred the lady he passionately loved.
We have mostly adorned celluloid action heroes like Chulbul Pandey and Bajirao Singham. Last year, we got what was marketed as an unforgiving and unabashed action film called Animal . The 20-minute stretch that unfolds in that hotel room or the climatic battle between a misogynist and a monster was all that we had in the name of mayhem. With Kill, Hindi cinema takes a giant leap with audacity knowing no bounds. And who would’ve imagined this could be an offering from the man who only filmed a slap in the name of violence in his films- Karan Johar. So for all those who thought Animal reeked of violence, this discomforting debut vehicle reduces that blockbuster to a Disney cartoon.
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