Little is written or shown about dating between humans and animals in India. Although Bollywood attempted to work on the subject, it released some successful films, including Teri Meherbaniyan (1985), starring Jackie Shroff, and Haathi Mere Saathi (1975), starring Rajesh Khanna. In 2025, Bollywood is trying to return to the genre with Azaad, a film about a man’s date with his horse.
Acting as a launch for Amaan Devgan, nephew of actor Ajay Devn and Rasha Thadani, daughter of actor Raveena Tandon, Azaad focuses completely on human animal dynamics. The film is directed through Abhishek Kapoor, whose command on portraying feelings on the screen is fantastic. Box in Point Rock On! (2008) and Kedarnath (2018). But is Azaad an entertaining movie? Does this guarantee a big screen experience? And everyone is asking: Rasha and Amaan end up justifying their privileged casting?
First of all, Azaad is not afraid of Amaan or Rasha. It is, bravely and rightly, a film about the magnificent nightmare, the horse, which also inspires the name of the film. Set in the pre-independence era, the film explores the time when Indians were just beginning to nurture the spirit of uprising opposed to the British. The owners had become British puppets and rebelling was the only way out.
In Azaad, Govind of Amaan, an insurgent recruit, falls in love with Janaki of Rasha, an insurgent in his own sense who likes to become familiar with British pastimes, but does not mince words when he triggers an injustice or discrimination with women with respect to women with respect to women. . But the true love tale is between Govind and Azaad, which was passed on to him after a twisted incident.
The first part of the film proves your patience and feels scattered throughout the position. The rebels fight, a love story takes position in the background, a horse makes tantrums and housing owners oppose others. The scenes, while they love it seems when I was a child in a sweet store, just too satisfied to act. It was at the time that things seemed to be in position.
Ajay’s performance in the film as rebel Vikram Singh is sincere and exact. He is a seasoned enough actor to know when to mix his intensity with a bit of leniency. He is joined by Diana Penty, looking as pretty as the first drop of dew on flower petals. While none of them get a lot of screen-space, they add both the required edge and delicacy to the story.
For Amaan and Rasha, Azaad turns out to be a decent launch ramp when it may have been much better. The film was founded a lot about anthropomorphism to offer its maximum productive moments. There is a horse that growls, flirts, continues, cries and finds a wonderful pride. All you can do is really a surprise. The big, dark and lovely creature is the maximum horny silhouette, which made to everyone who knows. But that does not seem enough for the movie.
While the horse keeps you entertained, the film doesn’t stand tall entirely on its own. It doesn’t appear like a cohesive mix of drama and romance to keep you engaged. Something always remains amiss. At its best, it looks like a concoction of Lagaan’s spirit and the mood of all the animal-oriented movies we have seen in the past. A concoction which is edible but tasteless.
Here is the trailer of Azaad:
Rasha and Amaan have an intelligent emotion, they look honest and trained. His position is promising and his diction is much greater than that of other young stars who have already worked in more than 10 films. However, they seem to get lost in the traditional elements of the “first movie. “
Rasha’s dance number, Uyi Amma, is not only out of place, but it’s just as bad for the film as high winds are for a sinking ship. That doesn’t mean she’s on the fence here. Rasha is beautiful, but she, as an object to please the male gaze, is so direct that you never forgive the camera lens.
Admittedly, Amaan doesn’t imitate his star uncle. It’s well-contained even in the action scenes and doesn’t pretend to dominate the screen with the charm of I’m the hero of this movie. The component of Azaad is that everyone knows who the real hero is here. And the worst thing is that the story is only based on that.
The climax of the film is amazing and occurs in the blink of an eye. The other actors in the film, Piyush Mishra as the ruthless Zamindaar, and Mohit Malik as the even more ruthless and scathing son of Zamindaar, are sophisticated villains. We have noticed more villains, especially in stories set before independence.
Azaad could have been a far more captivating watch. But, for now, it looks like a half-baked story. Does it make for a big screen experience? No. Is it a slow watch? Yes. Would it upset you? No.