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Alia Bhatt, who started her Bollywood journey by becoming a college student of Karan Johar and then established her own identity among the Hindi cinema audience through excellent films like 2 States, Raazi, Gangubai Kathiawadi, has now entered the Hollywood film industry as well. Have made your move. His Hollywood debut film has been released on the OTT platform Netflix. The film is of total duration of 2 hours 5 minutes. So if you are thinking of giving your precious time to this film, then before that definitely know whether you should watch this film or not.
Actress Gal Gadot is in the lead role in Heart of Stone, who is playing the role of a detective named Rachel Stone. After Rachel, the second most important character of the film is Parker, played by Jamie Dornan. This is a negative role. Alia Bhatt is seen as a 22 year old girl Keya Dhawan in the film. Like Jamie, Alia’s role is also negative.
What is the story of Heart of Stone?
The story of Heart of Stone is somewhat similar to the web series Citadel starring Priyanka Chopra and Richard Madden. In that series, there was mention of a technology named Ozki, through which any nuclear weapons and army of the world can be captured. An agency named Citadel was busy protecting that technology from the enemies. The story of Heart of Stone is also similar.
In the film, there is a secret agency named Charter, which has a technology named Heart with which the entire world can be captured without any problems. Anything can be hacked, from mobile phones to power grids, banks and military. He can even predict the future. Rachel Stone i.e. Gal Gadot works for this agency. Parker i.e. Jamie Dornan is also a part of this agency, but only to take over Hart from Charter. Keya i.e. Alia Bhatt also supports him in this purpose. Later in the story, Parker and Keya are seen together, while on the other hand, Rachel is busy saving Hart.
How is the movie?
It is said that a film can be a good film only when its story is good and most importantly, that story is presented with style. But that thing is not visible here. Shortly after the film starts, one begins to realize that somewhere its story is matching with that of Citadel. The weakest point of this film was that the story is so complicated that it takes a lot of time to understand what is going on and even if you want to, you are not able to focus completely on the film.
Acting?
Gal Gadot is very solid in her character. In terms of acting, he has left other stars of the film behind. Jamie Dornan’s work is also worthy of praise. But Alia Bhatt has not been able to show anything special in her Hollywood debut film. When Alia enters after about 10 minutes of the start of the film and seeing the way her small glimpse is shown, it seems that she will be seen having a lot of fun in the film. But ahead of Aaliya, there is only disappointment.
Seeing her in this film, it does not seem that she is the same Alia, who has presented the character like Gangubai Kathiawadi in Bollywood with seriousness on screen. Since her character in the film is negative, but innocence is visible on her face throughout the film, she appears detached and lost from her character, seeing which the mind of an audience is not able to completely accept her in a negative role.
What is special in the film?
There are some things in the film which you will definitely like. There is a lot of action in it. Action scenes ranging from bike rides to airplanes have been seen. The background music of the film is also amazing, which adds to the action scenes. Many beautiful scenes from mountains to snowy valleys have been shown in the film.
Why watch and why not watch?
If you are planning to watch an action film and you are not interested in the story, then you can watch this film. But if your priority is the story and you are thinking of watching something different from before, then this film is not for you.
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