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Amar Akbar & Tony is a British romcom drama written, directed by Atul Malhotra( one of the film s producers) the film is produced by Aayush Puri, Aashreen Puri,

Amar Akbar & Tony Movie Review

Amar Akbar & Tony Movie Review English
Review for the film " Amar Akbar & Tony"
Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video
Runtime: 01 Hour 33 Minutes
Certificate: UA
Released: 17-04-2015
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
1 / 5.00
3.48 / 5.0

CAST & CREW


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  • Producer:
  • Martin Delaney
  • Rohit Kumar
  • Kunal Dave
  • Camilo Colaço
  • Aayush Puri
  • Aashreen Puri
  • Victoria Wood
  • Atul Malhotra
  • Victoria Barrell
  • Sandeep Puri
  • Rez Kempton
  • Cinematographer:
  • Jorge Luengas
  • Editor:
  • Gareth Blower
  • Alex Morgan
  • Writer:
  • Atul Malhotra
  • Composer:
  • Director:
  • Atul Malhotra
  • Movie Actor:
  • Laura Aikman
  • Tanveer Ghani
  • Shide Boss
  • Oliver Messenger
  • Munir Khairdin
  • Manrina Rekhi
  • Kumud Pant
  • Kumall Grewal
  • Martin Delaney
  • Rez Kempton
  • Sam Vincenti
  • Ace Bhatti
  • Amar Adatia
  • Dev Sagoo
  • Jean Heard
  • Kay Aujla
  • Costume Designer:
  • Julie Jones
  • Art Director:
  • Annalisa Andriani
  • empty:
  • Jonathan Sidwell
  • Elliott Purchase
  • Executive Producer:
  • Rohit Kumar
  • Sandeep Puri
  • Associate Producer:
  • Rez Kempton
  • Martin Delaney
  • Assistant Director:
  • Jonathan Sidwell
  • Jacob Temple
  • Elliott Purchase
  • Camilo Colaço
  • Casting Director:
  • Kristina Erdely
  • Shakyra Dowling
  • Production Manager:
  • Daniel Watkins
  • Production Designer:
  • Damien Creagh
  • Actor:
  • Gemma Merritt
  • Avinashi Sharma
  • Daisy Moseley
  • Maryam Nour
  • Vincent O\'Brien
  • Fevzi Ozalcin
  • Benaisha Mehta
  • Rajveer Magon
  • Stavros Louca
  • Wesley Lloyd
  • Jermaine Liburd
  • Regan Leech
  • Sushma Kumar
  • Joelle Koissi
  • Kenny Knight
  • Mukta Khosla
  • Jack Pallister
  • Ashraf Patel
  • Glenn Webster
  • Yash Vij
  • Rohan Rai Vij
  • Zyad Suleiman
  • Peter Stanford
  • Darts Sood
  • Harjeet Singh
  • Ranjeet Singh Johar
  • Yaashna Shourie
  • Dhiyaana Shourie
  • Vishnu Shastri
  • Arun Sharma
  • Robert Scott
  • Evan Schultz
  • Maya Savani
  • Jonathon Daley
  • Rez Kempton
  • Oliver Messenger
  • Manrina Rekhi
  • Kumall Grewal
  • Ace Bhatti
  • Shide Boss
  • Kay Aujla
  • Jean Heard
  • Anita Waite
  • Cloudia Swann
  • Amar Adatia
  • Scarlett Belle
  • Steffi Green
  • Munir Khairdin
  • Atul Sharma
  • Sam Vincenti
  • Martin Delaney
  • Karen David
  • Laura Aikman
  • Goldy Notay
  • Meera Syal
  • Nina Wadia
  • Tanveer Ghani
  • Amrita Acharia
  • Mark Moraghan
  • Kumud Pant
  • Dev Sagoo
  • Amy Maghera
  • Elizabeth Nicholson
  • Ben Bunyard
  • Raoul de Bunsen
  • Pandit Shri Niwas Dwivedi
  • Susan Etok
  • Tony Hill
  • Joy Isa
  • Sabah Jawahri
  • Meriam Kadri
  • Nadya Kassam
  • Preety Kaur
  • Phelim Kelly
  • Sohail Khan
  • Gareth Blower
  • Laura Bernardeschi
  • Tony Bailey
  • Terry Sue-Patt
  • Gouri Kar
  • Hari Sajjan
  • Navinder Bhatti
  • Maggot
  • Krishan Tandon
  • Bharat Mistri
  • Danial Azam
  • Aran
  • Mohammed Ali
  • Murat Akyildiz
  • Rafiq Ahmed
  • Sound Department:
  • Marco Iavarone
  • Stephen Goldsmith
  • J.D. Evans
  • Mark Andrews
  • Allen Lindenberg
  • Alan O\'Duffy
  • Elliott Purchase
  • Shadab Omar
  • Vincent Watts
  • Richard Thomas
  • Michael Regan
  • Art Department:
  • Daisy Moseley
  • Oksana Veber
  • Bonnie Vannucci
  • Carla Fernández Díaz
  • empty:
  • Steve Medlin
  • Visual Effects:
  • Alex Murray
  • empty:
  • Luisa Ridge
  • Lara Prentice
  • Katy Gill
  • Laura Wisinger
  • Camera Department:
  • Philip Aubery Pascoe
  • Luis Santos
  • Pedros Santos
  • Arun Taylor
  • Matthew Tregoning
  • Robert Viglasky
  • Fevzi Ozalcin
  • Al Marshall
  • Mo Akyildiz
  • Bii Chau
  • Rosario Ivan Glorioso
  • Frank Hellebrand
  • Simon Kmiec
  • Ewan MacFarlane
  • empty:
  • Anjna Raheja
  • Tony Hill
  • Mohammed Hussain
  • Karen Lane
  • Lizzie Pritchard
  • Hassan Raza
  • Catherine Lyn Scott
  • Midge Shourie
  • Olivia Thomas
  • Claire Watson
  • Annelise Buesnel
  • Geeta Fermah
  • Mani Kohli
  • Bastien Bourdeaux
  • Matthew Troughton
  • Jon Olav Stokke
  • Cavan Ash
  • Roxanne Cuenca
  • Location Management:
  • Margherita Manizza
  • Ben O\'Farrell
  • Nadya Kasam
  • Nadya Kassam
  • empty:
  • Mike Regan
  • Gabriella Shaffer

Amar Akbar & Tony is a British romcom drama written, directed by Atul Malhotra( one of the film’s producers) the film is produced by Aayush Puri, Aashreen Puri, and Victoria Wood. The film’s music is composed by Rishi Rich Rishi Rich is a popular music producer. He was bor >> Read More... , the cinematography is done by Jorge Luengas and Gareth Blower and Alex Morgan edited the film. The film has an ensemble cast of Rez Kempton, Sam Vincenti, Martin Delaney, Karen David Karen Shenaz David is an Indo-Canadian songwriter, >> Read More... , Laura Aikman, Goldy Notay Goldy Notay is a renowned British-Canadian actress >> Read More... , Meera Syal Meera Syal was born on 27 June 1961. She is a come >> Read More... , Nina Wadia Nina Wadia is an Indian-born British actress who i >> Read More... , Tanveer Ghani Tanveer Ghani is an actor who works in British Tel >> Read More... , Amrita Acharia Amrita Acharia, an actress with British Nationalit >> Read More... , Mark Moroghan, Kumud Pant Kumud Pant is an aspirant actor and model. Current >> Read More... , Dev Sagoo, Atul Sharma Atul Sharma is an Indian model and film actor, bas >> Read More... , Munir Kharidin, Oliver Messenger, Manrina Rakhi, and Kumall Grewal.

Plot

Childhood friends Amar, Akbar, and Tony come from different social and economic backgrounds but stick together no matter what comes next and face ridiculous situations with each other.

Star performance

Martin Delaney is sort of a standout in this mess of a film. His comic timing is good. Rest of the actors are just doing what the director is telling them to do which is taking the stereotype to its core, it gets frustrating after a point. Also the film being Indian Diaspora most of the actors are white. Even two main leads are supposed to be Indian/Brown the actors are white, which leaves no room for authenticity.

Analysis

Despite the film’s title reference to the 1977 Bollywood Classic, it has no relevance to it.  The title is only used to attract the Indian diaspora. The only saving grace in this mess of a film is Martin Delaney as Tony. His comic timing is good and somewhat tries to save this film. Now let's get to brasstacks, first the film is majorly focused on the Indian Diaspora living in England yet none of the leads are from that background or origin, which leaves no room for authenticity. Second, the film is filled with Asian/Indian stereotypes. There is nothing wrong in making jokes about it, but if you’re making that main goal then you need to do better. Atul Malhotra as the writer and director is confused in what to showcase, he’s heavily dependent on stereotypes which doesn't pan out well, the jokes don’t land, there is no vision, and no character development. Adding subplots just worsens the film at one moment its comedy the next it's drama (extreme drama). The film could’ve been a simple feel good film but these additions,  way too many subplots, and the director’s lack of vision lets the film down. Amar Akbar & Tony has no relevance to the Bollywood film and to the subjects it wanted to focus on.

What's there?

  • Martin Deloney’s comic timing

What's not there?

  • The film has a slow pace.
  • The director lacks vision and is confused about what he wants to focus upon
  • No character development

Verdict

If you want to gain knowledge about India and its commonalities then you can somewhat watch this film.


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