‘Ma’ Movie Review: Kajol is in Ho-Horror Drama Chase to the Chase

After every few years, we have a female star that plays the role of a dotting mother that transforms into her child and family savior. This is a time-tested Bollywood formula for the heroine who is losing her place in the headlines to play her age and still remains central for the story. The template is the same, but the public feeling associated with the mother figure is such that the melodrama keeps recycling. From Jaya Prada Mother In Sridevi Mother And in Raveena Tandon Matter, Mother Magic has worked for many actors.

This week, it is Kajol’s turn to take the mantle and remind the public that she can run a story. While her men contemporary are still thrilling young girls, she has already played some compelling mummy variants. Helicopter Eela And Salaam Venki.

Here, the actor has joined hands with Vishal Furia, who has tuned the ‘Mother in Distress’ template Chori Mambbo-Jambbo Sound added a layer of supernatural secrets, women agency and social comments to make it contemporary and progressive.

Along with Kajol, he has a budget to scale the idea and scary atmosphere. Settings are Bengal, which allows him to include MAA mythology, where divine is organized familyly, but the result is surprisingly unaware.

It is unexpected like a chapter that you have already done, an activity you have already started, a road you have already traveled. Yes, there are a couple of terrible blind spots, but for most parts, you know where we are and how we will reach there. Despite being shot at the place, Mother It gives us an understanding that we are in a faith-confident world. This addresses relevant concerns, such as how to discuss the onset of menstruation with a teenager. It is woven into the story; However, a heavy approach reduces it in a drab plot device.

Shuvanankar (Indranil Sengpta) refused to take his wife, Ambika (Kajol), and daughter, Shweta (Kherin Sharma) to her original place in Bengal as there is a mysterious curse that endanger the lives of young girls in her family. Her father’s death forces her to return. It spirals in a series of mysterious events, forces Ambika to take her daughter to Chandra Nagar and faces the strength of a demon with deep roots in the story, and Goddess Durga’s religious symbolism as well as her fight against evil forces. Author Saivin Quadras tried to add patriarchal past to patriarchal past, but does not work in Bengali background. The folklore is flat. Rakatbez has become the most popular mythological monster for Hindi film writers in various styles. The unique feature of the demon, which fell from his body, could repeat itself with every drop of every blood, has been tested several times that agnathers can also read its blood report.

The presence of Ronit Roy as the head of the village and the absence of red herds ensures that the snake in the grass appears from a distance. Different ChoriThere are hardly any moral dilemma or difficult decisions that keep us busy.

We are left to stare at the endless, shape-transfer organs of CGI demons and a banyan tree. The sequence where Ambika and Shweta try to escape in a car and the demon is followed by a wife of girls, one leaves one to sit and leave popcorn.

Otherwise, there are long routes where the over (or below) of supporting actors acts and the tongue’s deliberate rolling for the manufacture of Bengali accents becomes rapidly disturbed. After a point, internal arguments fail to add. In the era of creating cinematic universe, it seems eager to make connections with the manufacturers the devil This can bring Ajay Devgan and Kajol together. This is a delicious idea, but its seed, or we should say rutbies, is not powerful enough.

Kherin is not the right choice to play the role of Kajol’s daughter. That part does not appear, and the emotional bond rarely leaks through the screen. Kajol excel in roles that do not take any nonsense approach to life. Here, Ronit, Gopal Singh, and Vibha Rani try to create a melodious atmosphere around her that corresponds to the style, but Kajol is unhappy with emotionally weak writing, clinging to her straight view. One thought that subject and writing could bring Naina out Enemy In Kajol, but she remains Ambika, Maa Devi, which makes it unilateral, an unilateral competition.

The Navratra release may have injected some external energy, but at a time when parents of the universe are sleeping, it is difficult for the mortal to invest.

Maa is currently running in theaters

Published – June 27, 2025 04:07 pm IST