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| The plot is not hair-brained, but the execution is. The movie begins well and goes down-the-hill steadily (video below) |
June 22, 2016,
Shirish Kunder’s just released short film, Kriti, a psycho thriller, has glimpses of promise, but fails miserably.
The promise exists, in a few twists, like the mannequin you see when the door opens and Manoj Bajpayee steps into his house. But there are also twists that make you chuckle.
The movie tries to grapple with the twilight zone, where you are confused between what is real out there and what exists in your mind. That is the world Manoj Bajpayee, a rich writer, inhabits.
He is in a new relationship with Neha Sharma; his psychiatrist Radhika Apte warns that she could be just his imagination. In the course of trying to prove that Neha Sharma exists, he kills her.
A cop enters the scene and over the course of investigation it turns out that even Radhika Apte exists only in Manoj Bajpayee’s mind. But she materialises and advises him to put an end to the cop, who is also a figment of imagination.
The plot is not hair-brained, but the execution is. The movie begins well and goes down-the-hill steadily. A thriller with over-the-top melodrama is what mainstream Bollywood can offer and Shirish Kunder stays within the limits. All that is missing is a Farah Khan choreographed dance.
The only saving grace, no prizes for guessing: Manoj Bajpayee.
He is in a new relationship with Neha Sharma; his psychiatrist Radhika Apte warns that she could be just his imagination. In the course of trying to prove that Neha Sharma exists, he kills her.
A cop enters the scene and over the course of investigation it turns out that even Radhika Apte exists only in Manoj Bajpayee’s mind. But she materialises and advises him to put an end to the cop, who is also a figment of imagination.
The plot is not hair-brained, but the execution is. The movie begins well and goes down-the-hill steadily. A thriller with over-the-top melodrama is what mainstream Bollywood can offer and Shirish Kunder stays within the limits. All that is missing is a Farah Khan choreographed dance.
The only saving grace, no prizes for guessing: Manoj Bajpayee.