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Brahmastra: Part One - Shiva - movie review

The movie has a nice concept, in which multiple weapons (astras) were obtained by sages in the past, and they used their astras to tame the strongest of them, the Brahmastra, and formed a secret society to protect the world from unleashing the Brahmastra. The story of the movie is about the protagonist, who finds himself as a center point of a conflict to unleash the Brahmastra. The problem with the movie is that it is executed poorly. The love story between Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, which is central to the plot, is unconvincing and shallow. The writing in the movie and the dialogues were also poor. The songs in the movie are nice, but out of place and seemed to be forced into the movie instead of being a natural part of it. Alia Bhatt's acting is irritating, and her constant uttering of the protagonist's name (Shiva) has become a meme. Some of the special effects in the movie, especially the fire animations, were comical. There were a couple of Easter eggs in the movie tha