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 jan’ 2018 onwards), I was waiting for the Newton Blu Ray to release. Now, that it has released, here’s my review:
Video Quality: Newton is presented on the Blu-Ray by Reliance Entertainment. The movie is presented on the widescreen ratio of 2.35:1 1080p full HD picture quality. The movie is based entirely in rural settings with forest cover dominating the screen. The movie is throughout filled with different shades of greenish brown colour (for denoting the jungle area of naxal affected village). Therefore, the picture quality appears very cool and soothing. It doesn’t appears too harsh on the eyes. However, in certain scenes, the grainy effect becomes too audible.
The details are very clear & fine e.g. deserted school campus which is used as voting place, colours of the trees in the forest, wrinkles on the Military uniform. These are some of the highlights showing good picture quality. But, the ending scene of Aatma Singh in supermarket & Newton working in his office; slightly falls short of actual clarity. Maybe, the Camerawork was deliberately done like that.
My score: 4.5 out of 5 for Video Quality
Audio Quality: The Blu-Ray comes with a lossless DTS HD Master audio 5.1 surround sound.
The sound was just audible from the bollywood standards. I would have been happy if the sound had been little more. Many people may not agree with my views. I watched the entire movie at -28 level; compared to Padman (which was at -42 level). The vocal, dialogues were clear in majority of the scenes. But, there were few scenes, where I had to actually look at the subtitle to understand what they said. The dialogue was very low in volume. The scenes in the movie did not demand any major activities in the surround sound nor LFE.
The eeriness silence in the forest has been captured beautifully. I could literally feel that. That was the standalone moment in this bluray sound effect.
On scale of 1 to 5, the Blu-Ray soundtrack will be 4/5. 1 point less for unclear dialogue in few scenes.
Overall score is 8.5/10.
Filmi Keeda 