Spoilers ahead…
Only Siddharth slips comfortably into his character’s skin, as a somewhat angry young man. But he can only do so much when the writing is all over the place.
I’ll give Karthik G Krish this much: he is a director with ideas. Take the stretch where a man has to hand over the woman he loves to a bunch of gangsters, because they have a gun on his best friend’s head. Later, when all works out and the man attempts to reclaim his woman, she refuses. She says he should have thought of her safety first. He says, “I’ve known my best friend for 25 years.” She replies, “So I’ll have to wait for 25 years before I know you’ll think of me first?” It’s a snappy line, and a great thought. She is really mad, because she has guarded herself against men and the one man she let her guard down with has done this to her. At this point, we need the writing to take this girl from “all men are the same” to “yes, this man did something shitty, but he is indeed different.” And that, the writing never does. The closure to this dilemma is silly to the point of being insulting.
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