{"id":4447,"date":"2024-06-30T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashokkarania.com\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2024-06-30T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T14:30:21","slug":"maharaj-review-yashrajified-movie-derails-strong-story-junaid-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/maharaj-review-yashrajified-movie-derails-strong-story-junaid-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharaj Review: Yashrajified Movie Derails Strong Story &amp; Junaid Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maharaj Review: Yashrajified Movie Derails Strong Story &amp; Junaid Debut<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing controversial about the movie &#8211; a reiteration of how institutionalised and cult-driven religious practices become the very evil they claim to fight against! Maharaj is indeed an important story that needs to be told!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movie is based on the landmark case of 1862 where Gujarati social reformer activist journalist Karsandas Multi (Junaid) exposes religious leader Jadunath Maharaj\u2019s (Jaideep Ahlawat) predatory sexual exploitation and rape of women devotees in the name of \u2018Charan Seva\u2019. Karsandas is a progressive liberal who overcomes his personal demons to travel the path of great leaders like Raja Ram Mohan Roy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The premise and plot is very strong but forced punchlines and Yashrajification weakens the impact. Aamir Khan\u2019s son Junaid is earnest and does a fine job &#8211; impressive start and a brave choice for zero fanfare debut. Jaideep rocks with his solid performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maharaj &#8211; A though provoking movie that fails to make a strong impact!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Maharaj_Movie_2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Maharaj_Movie_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Maharaj_Movie_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Maharaj_Movie_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Maharaj_Movie_2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharaj Review: Yashrajified Movie Derails Strong Story &amp; Junaid Debut Nothing controversial about the movie &#8211; a reiteration of how institutionalised and cult-driven religious practices become the very evil they claim to fight against! Maharaj is indeed an important story that needs to be told! The movie is based on the landmark case of 1862 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[286,714,718,768,963,964,1112,1184,1186,1193,1245],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bollywood","category-movies","tag-bollywood","tag-hindi-cinema","tag-hindi-movies","tag-indian-cinema","tag-maharaj","tag-maharaj-review","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-and-chill","tag-new-releases","tag-ott"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}