Ariana Grande has used her full name in the movie credits for her upcoming film Wicked. During her conversation with the podcast host on The Streaming Service with Justin Hill, the actress-singer mentioned that she has used Ariana Grande-Butera for the movie, as the whole filming process felt like a homecoming experience to her. She also revealed that using her complete name also marked a tribute to her inner child. 

Grande is set to play the role of Glinda in the film, alongside Cynthia Erivo. The fantasy film will revolve around a unique bond of friendship between Erivo’s character of Elphaba and Grande’s role of Glinda. 

Further in her talks on the podcast episode, the Swindler actress mentioned, “I just feel like this experience was such a homecoming for me. I feel like I came home to myself in a lot of ways, through what I learned from Glinda, from Elphaba.”

Plot:

The screenplay of Citadel: Honey Bunny moves back and forth. It shuffles between two different time frames – 1992 and 2000. 

In 1992, Honey (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) is a struggling actor while Rahi Gambhir aka Bunny (Varun Dhawan) is a stunt-man for feature films. Honey is unable to pay her bills and so Bunny offers her to join their special ops team. Her first job is to get a black electric equipment from a man that goes by the name of David. Honey neither knows about whether she is on the right side of things, nor does she know about the dangers of the profession that she is now part of, only because she’s broke.

In 2000, Honey lives with her daughter Nadia (Kashvi Majmundar) in a hill-town. Knowing about the risks of her profession as an undercover agent, she teaches her daughter, everything possible, so that she can be safe in times of danger. She doesn’t live with Bunny anymore. He is stationed in Bucharest. Honey and Bunny have to reunite to protect their daughter.

What happened that led to Honey and Bunny’s separation? What is so significant about 1992 and 2000 in the world of Citadel? Is the duo able to save their daughter and do they get back together? 
Watch Citadel: Honey Bunny to find out.

What works for Citadel: Honey Bunny

Citadel: Honey Bunny boasts of spell-bounding action and extraordinary camera-work. The long-shot action scenes are so incredibly shot and are so well choreographed that they, at times, exceed even the global standards. The background score is rivetting. The remix of old songs adds flavour to the action sequences. It is not wrong to say that what we witness on-screen in the action episodes is symphony in motion. 

There are a few quirky scenes here and there, through the course of the show, which assure you, time and again, that you are watching a Raj & DK show. All actors do well with what they get but the pick of the actors has to be the child actor Kashvi Majmundar who plays the role of little Nadia. Whenever she is on the screen, you know it is going to be a great scene.

What doesn’t work for Citadel: Honey Bunny

Citadel: Honey Bunny lacks the thrill and rage that a show of this genre must possess. The story is not too enticing. There are loopholes in the story and a lot of what is happening in the show is not all that convincing. It has the clichés of an espionage-thriller show. The back and forth screenplay of Citadel is too random and one doesn’t understand why the two stories are running parallelly in the first place. Also, since the difference in years is not too striking, there are times when one doesn’t know whether the sequence is in the past or the present. Rest, Citadel works well as an excellent actioner.

Watch the Citadel: Honey Bunny Trailer