MANOJ SASIDHARAN

This will surely make Mills and Boon mortally insecure. Naïve, pretty and a tad bit damaged girl meets neurosurgeon with Greek God looks (you get the wind of it, right?). Coincidentally, both happen to be Olympic level flirts. And oh, they didn’t forget to add complex layers. The girl has a history - she saved someone’s life, and it comes around and saves hers. Well anyway, after fire-hosing us with dripping romance, very close (really close) to the end, redemption comes, but not before you stop caring - the plot tries to redeem itself with a “breakthrough” realisation where our maiden realises that she was being like her mother, putting up with violence. That movie can’t fail, the movie hall was filled with giggling girls .. and as we survivors finally filed out in stupefied daze, we could hear them gushing about how profound and layered it was ! If you are a teenaged girl who can’t have enough of high octane romance, this movie is a gift from God. And then you have a right to be forgiven for indulging in excess.

A tragic effort at movie making genius. One wonders if the movie was an experimental effort to paint contrast using a bun (actually, one whole packet of it) as the canvas, paintbrush and paint ! But that at least took about ten minutes to become clear. The cinematography is no less an alarming effort at genius right from the opening frame by giving the audience a “dog’s eye view” and myopic closeups all through, presumably calculated to be a refreshing departure from the other extreme of the “bird’s eye view”. There are many efforts at creating comedy, but without a single exception, they came across as a comedy of errors at the attempt. It is claimed that the movie pays homage to the millions of cases pending across courts in India. Considerable time is spent in giving the audience courtroom experience. Despite that the court proceedings are ridiculously far from real court proceedings. I can tell you that as a member of the lawyer community. Of the way too numerous excesses of the movie, perhaps what deserves special mention is the excessive effort at creating real life atmosphere, be it by focusing on meaningless chatter and gesticulations of characters in the police station, or of the same in the courtroom characters. Hangover of a successful technique from a previous movie employed excessively in a subsequent one ? The movie comes through as excessively excessive in its treatment of everything, including treatment of the suffering audience. You think I am being alarmist? You must go watch 👍🏻