29 Dec, 2017
1 hrs 45 mins
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SYNOPSIS
Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business. It talks about a visionary who rose from nothing to create a mesmerizing spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Starring Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zendaya, Zac Efron, and Rebecca Ferguson, this biographical drama portrays the sense of wonder we feel when dreams come to life.
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BMS Reviewer
Verdict: An extraordinary story made even better with splendiferous performances. There`s a constant debate on what the audience wants to see and what the audience should see. As of now, the consumer is king and the media we expose ourselves to caters to our desires. However, this is also the reason for some of the highest grossing []...
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The Times of India
The film tells Barnum`s rags to riches story and explores how his meteoric rise to fame and fortune was muddled with allegations of exploiting the disabled for his circus. However, many also argued that his vision unified the outcasts and acknowledged their existence when their own disowned them.
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News 18
This is what you ever want, this is what you`ll ever need and this is the line you`re greeted with the moment The Greatest Showman begins. A typical musical with nothing extraordinary in it but just enough happening to love everything about the film. Boasting of a cast including the likes of Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, and Zendaya among others, the musical, based on the life of America`s most popular showman PT Barnum, is a hit with the perfect balance between chaos and emotions, music and dance and of course the rise and fall and rise again success of the man of actually invented the spirit and form of circus.
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Koimoi
The Greatest Show! A dream seen by the kid P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) who works as a caretaker for a rich family. He charmingly wins the heart of Charity (Michelle Williams) daughter of the man he was working for. Promising her a life with billion dreams, they both tie the knot with a warning from Charitys father Shell get tired of your (Barnums) life and come back to me one day. Barnum gets dismissed from his usual job after which he decides to become a showman.
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Deccan Chronicle
After the fantastic Logan in the beginning of this year, Hugh Jackman is back in a completely different role and film. As befits an origin story for legendary American entrepreneur P.T. Barnum and his troupe of talented oddballs and outsiders, `The Greatest Showman` tells an uplifting story in the old fashioned way of musicals.
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Hindustan Times
Last year, Illumination Entertainment realised that a world of possibilities exists beyond rehashing Minion shorts and made Sing. The musical animated comedy had Matthew McConaughey play a broke music producer koala who is looking for talented anthropomorphic animals to launch a singing reality show. He finds a bunch of misfits who trust him with their future.
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The Indian Express
The biggest charge thrown at P T Barnum, the American showman known for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus, was that he was a fraud, who sold fraud. What can you call a film about his life no less than a cheerful musical that colours all the greys out, that marginalises all the people he exploited, that drowns out all the questions his life raises in song and dance, to give us a man who is a loving husband, a doting father, a dreamer, and, to top all fakes, a believer in giving every person a chance?
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Firstpost
A film about a showman starring Hugh Jackman seems like a sure thing on paper weve already seen in The Prestige and Les Miserables that Jackman can elevate any material of this sort. The Greatest Showman, unfortunately doesnt benefit from his talent as it is bogged down by formulaic story beats, unexciting plotting and messy direction.
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