![]() This film has been through many upheavals including several court cases but Abhishek kept ploughing through. I think Kedarnath is also about faith in the power of storytelling. From the first frame, Mansoor is established as selfless and so generous that his mother is perpetually annoyed with him for underselling his services. Kedarnath is also a film about the power of faith – faith in God, in love, in the goodness of human beings. Eventually, of course the two lovers are fighting nature itself. These two are battling class differences and religious intolerance – just like Rose in Titanic, Mukku has an affluent, loutish fiancée who also happens to be a bigot. So Mandakini or Mukku belongs to a powerful pundit family in Kedarnath while the Muslim Mansoor is a pitthu or porter. But director Abhishek Kapoor ups the stakes. Here too, the boy and girl come from opposite sides of the tracks. Like James Cameron’s epic, Kedarnath is also a fictional love story set against a real life disaster – in this case, the devastating floods in Uttarakhand in 2013. ![]() Which is just one of the many things in this film that will remind you of Titanic. It shapes and takes lives, functioning as both benefactor and destroyer. It’s the first thing we hear and see in the film. ![]()
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