
The movie depicts a journey carried out from Bangalore to Kochi by two friends, the reserved Avinash played by Dulquer Salmaan, and his friend Shaukat played by Irrfan Khan with a lighter take on life, who pick up the chirpy teenager Mithila on the way.... (Full plot summary below)
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The movie depicts a journey carried out from Bangalore to Kochi by two friends, the reserved Avinash played by Dulquer Salmaan, and his friend Shaukat played by Irrfan Khan with a lighter take on life, who pick up the chirpy teenager Mithila on the way.
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| Hindustan TimesRohan NaaharKarwaan is a bittersweet, tender and hilarious road trip film about life and death, fathers and their children; featuring three empathetic central performances by Irrfan, Dulquer Salmaan and Mithila Palkar. |
| Scroll.inNandini RamnathTogether with Salmaan, Irrfan lends the movie the poignance it seeks, but doesn't always find, over 120 minutes. |
| The Times of IndiaRenuka VyavahareKarwaan might not be the roller coaster ride you expected it to be, but it leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling in the heart. |
| Film Companion ReviewsRahul DesaiThe film, to its credit, recognizes here that a road trip is little more than a memorable car ride. Perhaps even the director recognizes that the adventure, in fact, lies within - as opposed to the actual physicality of a journey. |
| Film Companion ReviewsAnupama ChopraKarwaan stays on the surface. Which, it must be said, is beautiful - this film will make you want to book a trip to Kerala. But it could have been much more. |
| User ReviewApoorva AA treat to watch..such a fresh story that you can watch again and again..i loved it...all the actors have done a great work...a must watch movie |
| User ReviewPaulo Cso happy to see Dulquer into Bollywood movies!!! Irfaan Khan's acting as usual outstanding??????waiting for this movie!! Almost all new released movies I find using boxxy software |
| User ReviewMirza Mohd Sso happy to see Dulquer into Bollywood movies!!! Irfaan Khan's acting as usual outstanding??????waiting for this movie!! Almost all new released movies I find using boxxy software |
| User ReviewMayank AI really liked this light-hearted bittersweet sensible comedy. Irfan Khan is fabulous with his perfect delivery timing treating us to loads of laughter. Besides the chuckles the movie also delivers on an emotional level, it does get preachy at times but in a subtle way, making you reflect on life, it a road trip to self-discovery. The casts are superb with their performances. |
| User ReviewAkramus S********* KARWAAN : A Trip of Beginners to Enter into Bollywood *********** It is hard not to like a road trip movie when it happened across our beautiful southern part of India and specially in "God's Own Heaven". A story by Bejoy Nambiar of two dead body getting swapped is enormously intriguing at the the beginning. IT company with tagline 'Don't complain, unemployment feels a lot worse' employee Avinash played by Dulquer Salmaan is a typical 'depressed, not happy with the job that killed my dreams' type. Shaukat played by Irrfan Khan was most lively character you'll see in this year. Shaukat's humour and Irrfan's improvisation skill made the character so charming, perky and straight forward with some cultural bounded thoughts. He had some childhood issues that'll be mentioned at the climax scene while they all three character realizes that their dads weren't so good as they expected maybe. So this third character is Tanya portrayed by internet sensation Mithila Palkar is a teenage with modern thoughts and happy with her life still she is a bit of a irresponsible. I have to mention that she forgot the news about her grandma's death. Her mother Tahira played by Amala Akkieni was introduced almost at the climax part. But her presence and importance both was there throughout the whole film with her little cellphone calls. There was a clear subtext that Avinash was having a feeling for Tahira but unfortunately it was gone when they met each other. Director Akarsh Khurana successfully managed to give importance every other smaller to smallest characters. That was the lovely part about this movie afterall. The cinematography by Avinash Arun was remarkable. His painter mind was able to capture the beauty of the road. Some excellent views with these ordinary character will keep your eyes to screen the whole time. But the editing part wasn't good at all. There were some unnecessary cuts in a conversations. The scene at a medical store Tanya and Avinash was fighting over a pregnancy test kit and the he exits realizes that Tanya is just a mirror image of his younger age back in college when he had a dream about photography. This scene was a good example of editing and screenplay. But there were so many sloppy moments about screenplay. Dialogues were humorous most of the time when it came to Shaukat but it could've been so better by award winner Hussain Dalal. They seemed most of the time contrived. Anurag Saikia's north east Indian melody with south Indian scenery makes few you feel nostalgic and down to earth sometimes. Prateek Kuhad with his unique indie folk music makes the perfect combination. As always album with Arijit Singh is always worth listening. With Slow Cheetah's rap song that escape scene looked like a piece of Malayalam movie. Finally we can say that Karwaan has Irrfan but it's not a "Piku". This movie sends us great lesson about how and why our parents are so insecure about our dreams. Maybe It's just a cyclic process. So if you haven't watched it yet then just watch it and come back and read my review again. |