Laal Kaptaan (2019)

Laal Kaptaan: Directed by Navdeep Singh. With Saif Ali Khan, Zoya Hussain, Manav Vij, Deepak Dobriyal. In an 18th century setting, a Naga sadhu in India sets out on a journey across Bundelkhand to seek revenge for an injustice committed in the past.

“I am very generous with 10 as I am a sucker for Western films n itu0026#39;s rare to come across a Western film from Bollywood.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story is set in the 18th century India n it is about a disturbed sadhu/ascetic who is on the hunt to seek revenge. The disturbed bounty hunter is on a killing spree n has spent two decades chasing his enemy.nFor the first time in Bollywood history, we r introduced to a man with no name.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWe also have our desi tracker a la David Gulpilil, who can find out the whereabouts of any man or animal by just following his scent n he is aided by two ferocious hunting dogs.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAfter Sonchiriya, this is the second western to come out from Bollywood and while revenge is a common theme in Westerns, it is the harsh/rugged terrain which is a character itself in Western films.nThis film too has some splendid sun soaked dry settings like Sonchiriya.nThe cinematography brings the bleakest of environments to frightening life, aided by the fact that the locations were every bit as bleak as they appeared on screen in both the films.”