The introvert Ajju becomes the more outgoing, suave Azhar flashing expensive watches and stylishly lifted collars. The life of Indian cricket team captain makes him cross flower-laden path with the gorgeous actress Sangeeta (Nargis Fakhri) who was nursing a broken heart. Their angelic love story smeared with lighthearted funny moments moves like a swift breeze. The journey of success is dotted with his marriage to the lovely Naureen (Prachi Desai).
Trending ‘Sshhhh.Azhar (Emraan Hashmi) is an introvert who's instilled with only one aim in life by his grandfather (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and that is to play 100 test matches for his motherland India. Trending Man posts about dosa made of ‘egg water’ at 'Chochi airport' Tharoor, others weigh in. Entertainment Exclusive | Benedict Cumberbatch says he wouldn't like to enter multiverse: 'I am very happy with this one'. Entertainment Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness movie review: Really a multiverse of muchness, not amounting to much. Cities Loudspeaker use in mosques not a fundamental right: HC. Explained: Were Punjab Police right in arresting BJP leader Bagga?. Nope, this ‘Azhar’ doesn’t hit it out of the stadium.Ĭast: Emraan Hashmi, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Prachi Desai, Nargis Fakhri, Lara Dutta, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajesh Sharma This could have been a great cautionary tale about a great sport at a time when it was just becoming the arena it has grown into-full of big money and glamour, bigger endorsements and never-ending temptations : it is, instead, an inept ‘tamasha’, not very different from the stuff Bollywood churns out, the cricket just the superstructure for tired song-and-dance and melodrama, in living rooms and court-rooms. Prachi Desai is rouged and demure and distressed, Nargis Fakhri as Sangeeta ( not, never, Bijlani) is pouty, Lara Dutta as the lawyer for the cricket council ( not, never, BCCI), is svelte but miscast, and Roy Kapur struggles with a bad wig and exaggerated accent, and Sharma as the bookie who makes the advances, is perenially oily. But Hashmi is earnest, and the only saving grace here. Watch: Here’s what audience has to say about Emraan Hashmi starrer Azhar on Day One:Įmraan Hashmi, usually so watchable, is buried under the inept script, which hints at shadowy dons and the guilty parties in a fuzzy, indistinct manner. Not only is there a parade of Kapils and Sachins (no, gasp, Dev or Tendulkar), the eponymous hero is not, double gasp, Mohammad Azharduddin but `Azhar Mohd’ who just happens to be a Hyderabad lad, whose affections for a Bollywood starlet lead him to abandon his first wife, and whose accidental dealings with a bookie leads him into abyss. Oops, sorry, this ain’t no bio-pic, ‘coz, look momma, it names no names. The film remains strangely ambivalent about its hero while mouthing ‘seeti-maar’ dialogue about ‘desh’ and ‘qaum’: to have made the point the way it needed to be made, the film needed to have been braver and sharper. You can also see that it’s been made to clear the real player’s name: a court did over-turn the ban but the whole process took so long that it became besides the point. (Also read: Azhar impresses viewers on Day One of release) This is the only legit way to watch the movie. Watch Azhar Full Movie Online (With English Subtitles) Hindi (Google Play) Hindi (AppleTv) Hindi (Youtube) OTT Platform: Google Play, AppleTv and Youtube. 
‘Azhar’ was presumably made because it had such a controversial figure at its centre, arising out of the fixing-maches-for-money controversy itself, which had such a deep-seated impact on the game not just nationally but internationally. Azhar was released on 13th May 2016 in theatres and now, it is officially available on the OTT platform after its theatrical run. Such is the extent of craven-ness on display that one of the most gripping cricketing stories of our time, featuring one of the most colourful captains of the Indian cricket team, is turned into a dull, dispirited tale. Using only first names as a dissembling tactic while referring to actual events and dates and places and times, is silly enough.
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