Three songs into the film, and it's still not clear what is going on, the flow of the story is still quite turbulent, and by the time it gets streamlined, you just get to appreciate the looks of the film, like, the locations, shiny colourful costumes, sets and the vivid colours, predominantly red and its various shades, that the film decorates the screen with. The problem is with the initial part of the storytelling where characters straight up hit the screen with their respective songs, and indulge in conversation with the other characters which also haven't been properly seated in the story, yet. And, the film in its effort at beautification, mostly forgets about at the subject at hand and only occasionally remembers to give us a few good sequences. The narration is quite jumbled in the first half of Kalank. Roop (Alia Bhatt) is the central character of the film, the supposedly very beautiful girl, as her name suggests. The song and dance sequences try to elaborate on her beauty through slow-motion running shots, slow-motion zoom-in shots of her smiling, raising her eye brows, etc. The film starts by introducing us to a cheerful and bubbly girl, Roop, through a beautifying song, which thoroughly tries to sell Roop as a very attractive girl. Kalank is set during the times of partition of India, around 1945-47, in a fictional place called Husnabad, near Lahore. Turbulent first half almost plays spoilsport.
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