A predictable voyage

Sat Shri Akaal England
Director: Vikram Pradhan
Star cast: Ammy Virk, Monica Gill, Sardar Sohi, Karamjit Anmol
Rating: *

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Jasmine Singh

Sat Shri Akaal England is one film, which has everything in place—a storyline which just about every Punjabi can relate to, a fantastic star cast, good locations, and fantastic dialogues. But the irony is all these ingredients do not bind seamlessly. It lacks punch and pace both, even till the end it looks and sounds unfinished!

The film is the story of most Punjabi boys who sign up for fake marriages with NRI women in the pursuit to go abroad, and maybe this makes the film pretty much predictable. The first half of the film is stretched unnecessarily. The film changes venue in the second half but it couldn’t catch up on the pace here too. It is just moving with no interesting twists or turns, following a predictable route.

The director has tried to be just to the story; nevertheless he couldn’t keep count of all the elements and carry them along as the story progresses. The film is being single-handedly run by Ammy Virk and supported by Karamjit Anmol. Here too despite good acting by Ammy, bang-on punches, his role remains undefined. The director has left Ammy to do whatever he wanted to. It would have been better, had he defined his role. The same holds true for Monica Gill, the director has left her role undefined with many raw edges. In fact, this can be said about the other actors, Karamjit Anmol and Sardar Sohi as well.

Music is the lifeline of all Punjabi films, but this would be one of the rare occasions where the music hasn’t been able to make an impact, thus it adds nothing to the story.

Whatever Sat Shri Akaal England scores is because of Ammy Virk, otherwise this foreign country couldn’t weave magic on screen.

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