This movie is great and all actetis to good wow movement for me Outside the sessions court, crowds carry completely-out-of-place placards that read Marry me Rustom, I love you Rustom and I want your baby Rustom. Are we at an IPL match or what?
Especially unexceptionable is the way the court scenes are executed. It takes the film away from the reality of the story and delivers an overacted, overstretched passage that overstays its welcome.
The public prosecutor( Sachin Khedekar) hectors and hollers his way through the hearing. The judge( Anang Desai) adds to the drama with rather vacuous wisecracks when he is not overruling or sustaining objections.
And the jury - the K.M. Nanavati vs. the State of Maharashtra case was India’s last such trial by consensus - stands by dutifully until it is time for them to up the ante even further.
Everything about Rustom is overly spick and span, which does not allow cinematographer Santhosh Thundiyil to go beyond the standard light-and- shade devices.
The kernel of the story: an officer and a gentleman( Akshay Kumar) arrives home after a long absence and stumbles upon an affair that his wife( Ileana D’Cruz) is having with a wealthy social acquaintance of his( Arjun Bajwa) .