You smell a rat right away. it’s at the entry of the navel officer hero RUSTOM PAVRI [Akshya kumar] framed against the tricolour fluttering in the background derictor tinu suresh desai reinterprets the famous K.M. Navnit case of yore and builds a popular conspiracy theroy around it in the spirit of today’s uber partiortic times wuiet conveniently at that. kumar, plays the navnit figure while Ileane d’ cruza is cynthia [the philander ingSylvia from real life) and Arjun Bajwa plays Vikram Makhija(the playboy Prem Ahuja).
"Kuchh to hai jo pakad mein nahin aa raha hai(There is something that one is unable to figure out), ” says the investigating cop Vincent Lobo(Pavan Malhotra) at some point. However, any marginally intelligent viewer would know where things are heading. Even though, the film itself very consciously tries to make a big deal of how much more there is to this seemingly simple, open and shut case of betrayal, jealousy and revenge.
Forget that there is nothing remotely credible or engaging in the thriller. The film, in fact, feels like a parody of the several murder mysteries and court room dramas we have seen down the ages. And an unintentionally funny one at that. Some moments in the second half are truly priceless, especially those that are to do with an orange dressing gown and a precariously held white towel that refuses to slip down the waist.