Saying ‘Gadaar’ is a good movie is a relative statement. The real problem with ‘Gadaar’, and all Punjabi movies for that matter is the Indian censors. As usual though, Punjabi movies forget there are women in this world and females play a perfunctory background role in ‘Gadaar’. But even if you can’t stand his ‘Kermit the frog’ voice or are jealous of his youthful looks, I promise you can still enjoy ‘Gadaar’! He does really great this time around, whilst the rest of the cast does OK too. On another note, this film is very Harbhajan Maan centered. In the end he had to address the injustice. Making money, drinking alcohol, creating charities -none of it made Jai’s bad memories go away.

It’s simple – you cannot forget even if you wanted to. The myth that Sikhs should forget and move on from the past is squarely addressed here. After receiving a letter from his dead grandfather’s lawyer, Jai learns that his traumatizing youth in 1990s Punjab is coming back to haunt him. Jai’s story gets very interesting indeed. As an audience you can tell that there is a purpose to this debauchery you just know that this movie is going to get interesting. The beginning is probably the cheesiest and worst part of the movie, although it’s still not that bad. Jai goes ski-ing, has a bunch of Eastern-European looking girls on his yacht and really awesome side swooped hair. The opening scenes of the movie show Jai and his entourage on a tour of his offices and companies. He’s a mysterious, handsome bachelor who nobody knows anything about. In ‘Gadaar’, Maan plays Jai Singh – a kind of modern-day Punjabi James Bond. Starring Harbhajan Maan in his best performance yet, Gadaar is an action packed thriller interspersed with betrayal, trauma and a perfectly executed soundtrack by Dr. Both films depict events from nineteen-eighties’ and nineties’ Punjab, but unlike Anurag Singh’s whitewashed and Delhi-friendly version of history, Gadaar manages to tell some real truths to the audience.

Amitoj Maan’s ‘Gadaar – the Traitor’ is a much better movie than last summer’s ‘Punjab 1984′.

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