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Bollywood Hindi Film Review
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Damaged Revenge drama
Film: Sayonee
Cast: Tanmay Ssingh, Musskan Sethi, Rahul Roy, Yograj Singh, Upasana Singh
Directors : Nitin Kumar Gupta & Abhay Singhal
Rating: * ½
Runtime: 112 mins
A romance cum revenge drama this one is a wannabe ‘Ghajini’ but without the vibe, smarts or savagery that catapulted the ‘Momento’ into a monumental hit.
The narrative here is typically slip-shod, loosely connected and doesn’t bother to allow for any empathy towards its lead characters.
Recently crowned and crowing National shooting champion, Rajdeep Randhawa(Tanmay Ssingh) is waylaid by a generically chirpy, bold orphan girl Mahi( Musskan Sethi) who apparently is studying herbology but appears to have all the time to steal Rajdeep’s gold medal and deliver it to an ailing kid who dreams of owning one. And before you can say ‘what the heck?’ the twosome become inseparable, the boy’s parents ( Yograj Singh & Upasana Singh) give their consent and Mahi sets off to Russia for her higher studies.
Gory stories about the Russian mafia and drug lords have obviously percolated down to Bollywood’s simple minded scriptwriters – so the narrative thrusts forward deep into the Russian underbelly with Rajdeep embarking on a journey to save his love. What happens in Russia thereafter, is beyond unbelievable. Needless to say there’s not much hope of raking in the moolah in such devastating times with such a substandard, unaccomplished product. The songs are hummable but the days of hit songs propelling a movie to super-hit status are long since dead. The story-telling is jumpy and feels like the two helmers literally had to do a tug of war to decide on which sequence to fit into the final cut. Even though the characters here are half-baked and unjustifiably volatile, the two lead actors do make their presence felt. Tanmay has the look of flop actor/singer Vikas Bhalla and Musskan mines Manisha Koirala. Both fail the originality test but their screen presence cannot be doubted. It’s pretty clear (from this abysmal engagement) that Bollywood's talent pool is devoid of ideas worth churning into movies for the big screen!
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