Runway 34 Movie Review: Devgn’s best directorial

Runway 34UA Drama mysteryDir Ajay DevgnCast Ajay Devgn Amitabh BachchanRating 35Therersquos a lovely looking bearded grand old actor Habib Bhai from Hyderabad mdash who I bump into at Bombay bars on occasion mdashplaying a journalist on a flight in this film Wherein the plane is getting rerouted because of turbulent weatherOf all the beats in the world he is an aviation reporter And can instantly tell that the plane about to land in Trivandrum instead of Cochin is bad news Because bad weather in Cochin should mean something similar in nearby Trivandrum as well noWatch VideoSuch foresight Only the main pilot in this pic Ajay Devgn who also personally makes ldquokursi ki petirdquo announcements should know betterWho else are on this plane Bunch of weirdos and dumbasses really mdash including an Indira Gandhi lookalike in the front row Between them you feel maybe a world without this lot wouldnrsquot be such a tragic loss after allRunway 34 is essentially an aviation movie The only genuine one of the subgenre in Hindi that Irsquove seen Not in the sense of a hijack drama that say the kinda crappy Zameen 2003 also starring Devgn wasItrsquos apparently based on a 2015 Jet Airways DohaCochin DOHCOK flight that had a narrow escape due to landing weather and visibility issues As does the fictional Skyline Airways flight going from Dubai to Cochin in this filmA crash is averted alright Landing isnrsquot smooth surely mdash with passengers cushioning their heads on the seats in front of them and the plane nearing jagged edge of a cliff that is right ahead of the runway No injuries that you can see let alone deaths on board Whatrsquos the conflictissueproblem thenWell to look into whether the main pilot or the captain on the flight took the right call after all More important whether this Davidoffsmoking partyanimal who was guzzling shots after shots on the night before his flight was mentally in a fit condition mdash or even suffering from lsquohomesickness syndromersquo mdash to be able tocommand a planeWhyrsquos this a decently made movie then As you can tell plot and scenes wise there isnrsquot enough material to keep you going for as long as the film does For locations there are primarily two The first half is pretty much inside a plane The second half is effectively a courtroom dramaThe movie keeps you glued to the screen still mdash chiefly drawing out two phenomenal performers postinterval when the competently executed airturbulence drama is already over Thatrsquos Amitabh Bachchan as the feisty chief investigator somewhat reprising his role from Pink 2016 looking into what went on inside the aircraftAnd Boman Irani kinda channeling Vijay Mallya as an airline owner mdash in quite the same way that he so wonderfully pulled off the late sexologist Mahinder Watsa in the slightly underrated Made In China 2019 more recently Therersquos Devgn in the front right left and centre of courseHersquos also directed and produced this film with fairly firstrate work thatrsquos gone into the VFX surely from his own company Of all the indefatigable longstanding superstars of hisrsquo90s vintage Devgn is the lone one whorsquos had career of sorts as a director alongside Putting his name on the credit unlike stars of yore who used to hide behind ghostdirecting their pictures insteadThis is his third film as director The last one was Shivaay 2016 mdash with the hero and heroine dangling inside a tent on an ice cliff and instead of freaking the hell out making love over the superb track Darkhast Evidently I didnrsquot walk in here with skyhigh expectations Needless to add this is Devgnrsquos best work as directorHis debut was part Iris 2001 part The Notebook 2004 called U Me Aur Hum 2008 Whatrsquos the inspiration behind Runway 34 Having speedwatched two movies on Netflix before getting to this page no doubt in my mind the flight path neatly leads to Robert Zemekisrsquos Flight 2012 and ClintEastwoodrsquos Sully 2016Both are aviation pictures about the ldquohuman factorrdquo with flight simulators and government regulators into the mix They also explain what looks like a stately American emblem on the wall the jury on their cushy seats and a large courtroom with plush interiors where the drama takes place hereHonestly itrsquos fun to get into the insides of how planes fly between the captain crew air traffic controllers and the runway Irsquod love to hear a proper pilot pick holes in this plot But thatrsquos not the point The stated one about this story of courage under fire is quite clear ldquoBetween what happened kya hua and how it did kaise hua lies the truthrdquoItrsquos the aviation journalist who says something that Irsquom still scratching my head over ldquoMausam aur insaan dono galti karte hain Both humans and weather make mistakes Thatrsquos recipe for disasterrdquo Kya baat hai Habib Bhai

Runway 34 Movie Review: Devgn’s best directorial

Runway 34
U/A: Drama, mystery
Dir: Ajay Devgn
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Amitabh Bachchan
Rating: 3/5

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Runway 34 Movie Review: Devgn’s best directorial

Runway 34U/A: Drama, mysteryDir: Ajay DevgnCast: Ajay Devgn, Amitabh BachchanRating: 3/5

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Runway 34
U/A: Drama, mystery
Dir: Ajay Devgn
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Amitabh Bachchan
Rating: 3/5