Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha: Ajay Devgn and Tabu’s ‘Past Lives’ Resurface in an Overstretched Drama
Ajay Devgn and Tabu's Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha offers an overstretched yet emotionally resonant drama exploring love and consequences over 24 years.
Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha Review: Ajay Devgn and Tabu Star in an Overstretched Drama Echoing Past Lives with Emotional Resonance and Lengthy Narrative
Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha mirrors the real-life period of 24 and also the 2023 English-Korean drama called Past Lives. However, the fact that it is a Bollywood film sets this apart from its counterparts, the style is more detailed or lavish rather than raw.
The movie begins with the character Krishna played by the actor Ajay Devgn, who is basically a prisoner unwilling to be released from jail after 23 years of his imprisonment for the twin murders. What has happened – the reason why he committed the crime – remains the only thread that can thread the garment of the plot: tenuous.
The drama is set in the past when young Krishna (Shantanu Maheshwari) was in love with a beautiful girl, named Vasudha (Saiee Manjrekar). The pair looks real which forms the basis for the protagonists who are depicted by Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol while Deepak Malhotra and Tabu represent their older forms. Serious issues like the mysterious abandonment of Vasudha and Krishna’s imprisonment remain completely unresolved by the end of day. Their reunion thus shapes the frame of the narrative to be developed.
Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha has regular and marginal features meeting the viewers with the aspect of love in different ages, passionate young youth love juxtaposed with level-headed elder love. However, the first half is all a stretched out melodrama that uses flashbacks at frequent intervals, and looks and feels like a daily soap episode.
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The element of mystery picks up in the pro-normalization narrative, but scenes replaying the events of one night feel tedious. However, there are moments of comedy in the film that gave levity too; the jokes, puns and sesquipedalian sense of humor was tolerable and at times necessary. A scene with much popularity involves the audience clapping when a character switches on the radio and hums the song Jeeta Tha Jiske Liye by Ajay Devgn from the movie Dilwale.
The performances of the lead actors including Ajay Devgn and Tabu are all so natural that you do not get an impression that they are acting. Shantanu Maheswari offers the right amount of gravitas and attractiveness as the male lead while Saiee Manjrekar stands out for being quite prominent in her role. Jimmy Sheirgill, the ever reigning stereotype of ‘the boy who never gets the girl’ eventually meets the same again. An important aspect of the movie is music composed by MM Keeravani but unfortunately the music lacks depth and contributes neither for nor against the movie.
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In regard to this Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha could have had better editing. Director Neeraj Pandey’s narrative feels overly extended, with the closing shot aptly reflecting the audience’s sentiment: Sometimes, It never ends….”
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