Talk:Sam Bahadur (film)/GA1

GA Review
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Nominator: 15:37, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Magentic Manifestations (talk · contribs) 16:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi! I will come straight to the point. I am sorry that I have to do this, but this is going to be a quick fail as the article does not meet WP:GA?. There are fixes required with respect to other criteria such as grammar and citations, but those can be addressed.

I will explain this in detail.
 * 1) Lead section needs expansion to summarize all the relevant sections. Would be a good idea to add what part of Sam's life is covered, budget against earnings, summary of critical response
 * 2) Production section is very short. The development section actually talks about how Kaushal was cast on the role rather than why the story writer wanted to take up the film. Needs to talk about how the production house came to the entire set up. Casting barely talks about 2-3 roles and given the no. of roles in the cast section, definitely needs to cover at least the major roles with specifics if any as to why someone was cast. Kaushal statement of difficulty can be backed up by why, what was done by him etc. The filming is a summary with a start date, end date and a sea of blue of locations. Can include specific schedules, special shots, locations etc. particularly for a historic film, which covers important events.
 * 3) Release section is all of two lines. Need to be expanded to cover promotion/marketing, pre-release if any, geography and span of release.
 * 4) Critical reception again barely covers some three to four reviews. Such a movie would definitely have had much more reviews from film critics.
 * 5) Box office is also a summary of three lines, one of which is a repeat from the previous section (clash with Animal). More information on how the progression happened. The figures correspond to what date? Was it a bomb or success?

Other issues that I came across that also needs addressing, which are fixable:
 * 1) Consistency in tense and grammar. For e.g. "film is directed" - present; "Produced" - past; "has gone through" - present participle; "will not have" - future; As the film has released, it should be in past tense across.
 * 2) In the lead, "Produced by Ronnie Screwvala, under the banner of RSVP Movies." - the line is dangling. Probably needs a comma as a continuation to the next sentence. Please read through to fix such issues.
 * 3) Inconsistency in collaborators as two names are mentioned in the article as co-writers but only one in the infobox
 * 4) As it is based on real life characters, citations for the cast section?
 * 5) Production: narrated the story to who?

I feel that the article can be expanded more than the current 45k bytes. While I appreciate the work you might have done for the article, please reach out to me for a re-review once the article has been expanded sufficiently and the points are addressed with! Please do write back in case of any comments or clarifications. Thanks! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 16:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)