Note: This review is of the Blu-Ray, not the actual movie. The Reviewer is not related to the team behind the Movie or Home Entertainment Business. This is just a review for helping the potential Buyers.
Since very long (approx june onwards), I was waiting for the PadMan Blu Ray to release. Now, that it has released, here’s my review:
Video Quality: Padman is presented on the Blu-Ray by Shemaroo Entertainment. The movie is presented on the widescreen ratio of 2.35:1 1080p full HD picture quality. One best thing this time Shemaroo has done, not to keep “Shemaroo” watermark visible throughout the movie. It only appears in the songs. The movie is based on rural settings with rustic ambience mostly. The movie is throughout filled with different shades of brown colour (for village, town settings). Therefore, the picture quality appears very cool and within limits. It doesn’t appears too harsh on the eyes.
The details are clear & fine e.g. crease on the shirt worn by Akshay’s character Lakshmi, barren landscape of the villages, vehicles moving around the building as seen through the glass behind Lakshmi, when he is addressing the crowd etc. These are some of the highlights showing good picture quality.
My score: 5 out of 5 for Video Quality
Audio Quality: The Blu-Ray comes with a lossless Dolby Atmos surround sound. I am very grateful to the entire team behind Pad-Man for releasing the Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
The sound was appropriately loud; which i like. Many people may not agree with my views. I watched the entire movie at -42 level; compared to Raazi (subtle at -35 level). The vocal, dialogues were very clear & clean. The scenes in the movie did not demand any major activities in the surround sound. Now, except for few scenes such as bird flying in the air, temple bells ringing far away in background, audience clapping in UN Building; i couldn’t find much activity in overhead speakers. The movie as such is not “Bass-heavy” except in 2 songs- “Hu Ba Hu” & “End-credits song”.
Frankly speaking, i could not find drastic audio improvement in this Blu-Ray over DVD Dolby Digital audio except for few scenes i mentioned above. Well, yeah, I saw this movie on DVD as well as Blu-Ray. On scale of 1 to 5, if DVD soundtrack was 4/5; then Blu-Ray soundtrack will be 4.5/5.
So, for audio, i will give it 4.5 out of 5. Half points less for lack of immersive experience of Dolby Atmos soundtrack, which i was expecting in the movie.
Overall score is 9.5/10.
Filmi Keeda 