Vidhu Vinod Chopra has his unique ways of relating a story. Whether it is 1942 A Love Story or Wazir his
story telling leaves one mesmerized to the screen.
Wazir has Amitabh in a newer and a more challenging role playing the role of a wheelchair bound chess
grandmaster and Farhan Akhtar playing a brave ATS officer. These two unlikely people bond and are
brought together in strange quirk of fate and are in grief. They decide to extend their intelligence to
each other and win the game of life. However both have a very mysterious and equally dangerous
enemy just round the corner in the shadows of darkness, doubt and disbelief who checkmates them.
Amitabh plays his role to the T, Farhan as usual is his suave self and has a slimmer, trimmer and fitter
version as an officer than the casual one in Dil Dhadakne Do. Aditi Rao Hydari fills the female protagonist
and we have darker shades of a different Neil Nitin Mukesh and there is John Abraham completing the
jigsaw puzzle of events.
The story, the tale and the movie are fast paced and slow down in between but it is the narrative that
holds the audience gripped to the movie. However as with other Vidhu Vinod Chopra flicks it slips up
midway and thus loses the cognitive balance.
We give it three stars.
