Some films give you an impression that you are watching a gripping saga unravel layer by layer. You keep anticipating a twist in the tale.but somehow in Lucknow Central, it never comes. Director Ranjit Tiwari it seems was rather confused on the kind of film he wanted to make.
First and foremost, for a film dealing with jail bands, the film has really terrible music. Meer e Karwaan was the only hummable song in the film. Compare that to Qaidi Band, a film on similar lines that released a few days back.It had rocking music.
Secondly the film has no sense of purpose. It kerps meandering.& the overdrawn climax just refuses to end.
And lastly, the film choosing to not give a resolution to its central confict is appaling. We never get to know why & who is responsible for Farhan’s ill fate.
Coming to the performances, the film has one of the strongest supporting casts that I have watched in a while. Farhan Akhtar obviously leads the show but there are Gippy, Imad, Rajesh Sharma, Deepak Dobriyal & Diana Penty who give it their all. There is also Ronit Roy & Ravi Kishan who do things we have seen them do multiple times. Infact Ronit Roy is shoddily typecast.
But it is the snoozeworthy screenplay & the aimless climax that proves to be its undoing.
I really had humongous expectations from the film but it just didnt turn out the way I had imagined.
This is a bad film which could have been so much more. Alas, this jail break was meant to be flawed.
Rating-1.5/5