Now that so many Wednesdays have actually gone, I finally saw this WEDNESDAY and then I came out completely umimpressed!
A Wednesday.
It starts with a promise of something interesting. The deliberate sweep on public places tries to add and heighten our curiosity levels. The added thrill of a man entering a police station and after a deliberation that did not sit well with me as a pressure situation turned into a some corny joke that suddenly thudded on my grey cells, the thrill of a bad being shoved in a toilet in a police station under the noses of the law went off as a “DUD”.
Then there is an UBER COOL Anupam Kher, CoP, in a designer shirt that he carries off well while walking the stone ramp walk of the Police HQ. I am sure all the Rohit Bals, Arjun Khannas must have been watching very seriously and are thinking of using the cool Kher for a LFW next year!
Enter the dutiful officer and right hand man of Kher who is as domesticated as a dog and wags his posteriors at his boss(wife) and his boss(Kher) too. Very religious indeed.
Enter Jimmy. Prancing around like a wounded tiger, looking more like a chewing gum guy who is desperately searching for the peddlers to calm his nerves! Very self righteous and ready to beat the crap out of law enforcers without batting an eyelid. You cannot just idolize an Al Pacino and carry it off just like its a chewing gum of a job!
Common man has already entered here and is so savvy with the software’s of telecom that he could have easily fooled a hacker who keeps fooling the law and hence he has fooled the law. Commutative property, cant argue much there can we?
What really got my goat was when the two titans clash! It fizzles like a soda which doesn’t have any gas! A DUD once again!
Now the real thrill part. The outdoors has been exploited very well. The use of a stead cam has been done with great understanding that increases the drama and the thrill of a time bomb ticking to explode. It does increase the levels of anxiety when you have an angry gum chewing, nerves frayed running with a severity of a mission which has no direction. Particularly when he is beating the s**t out of a policeman… they have paid attention worth two and a half minutes to that! Mind you I was still waiting for that inevitable explosion but it kept eluding me. I thought that while dutiful tail wagger was talking to his boss, something somewhere would suddenly go boom! But I ended up going boom boom on my seat!
Anyway, it reminded me of a silent crusade which is going on for nearly century now, you said it by Laxman! That common man is very dear and very near. This common man angst, tryst and his mission to blast those who blast us is not quite there as it starts too late.
According to me, if you need to keep an audience interested in a thriller, drama that involves a very beautiful thread of the anguish of the common man, the mission has to be declared right when it has begun. It gives the audience who is AAM AADMI like us all to take pride in such a thought and then empathise with the crusader to actually partake in the pain. The anger that’s simmering below the surface has to be forced open with the man in the theatre willing it to and not ‘waiting for it too…’!
You have a script that is in itself a ticking time bomb, but why do you have to throw the pin away and remove the juice that is going to blow in the governments face and blacken the law enforcers for the slack that they cut even to these cruel unemotional b******s who use human lives like raged dolls under the name of their religion! Its preposterous to let such a script go to absolute waste.
Performance wise Naseer is very collected and has expressed sufficient suppressed anger in his monologue to impress certain key issues about how we have taken the episodes in our stride and not willing to go against it! I am still trying to see where is this place that Naseer worked in where he could afford top of the line telecom software? How in the hells bells did he get the cell numbers of people who are dead to use it to fool the law? Are the cell companies listening and seeing at all? Well so much for the much awaited hacker scene… It lasts for exactly the same time that the chewing gum guy beats the law enforcer… That’s the importance of a key internet software savvy individual! In Hollywood they would have made a film on it… read my review on untraceable!
I was completely unimpressed. I will not reco it anymore than what I have written above!
A thriller is the one that gives you the goose pimples in anticipation of what’s coming! Not with a monologue that comes at the end where the plot goes everywhere including NOWHERE!