Last Benchers, Hindi Bollywood Film Movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: *

Last Benchers, Hindi Bollywood Film Movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: *

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#LastBenchers (Hindi) Rating: *  A group of untested and untutored youngsters from Nagpur got together to make this collegian fare. There’s just no script and the narrative just meanders along! #SantoshRaj #PrajaktRebeloma #TanviLonkar #DeepakHarne  #SanketGalactus #PrashantKhalokar

Hindi film review

Johnson Thomas    

A trial on the senses

Film: Last Benchers    

Cast: Prajakt Rebeloma, Tanvi Lonkar,Deepak harne , Sanket Galactus, Prashant Kha lokar

Director: Prajakt Rebeloma

Rating: *

This is an amateurish presentation of college life by a team of college students from Nagpur. Their main aim is to develop a film production facility in Nagpur and to this end have attempted to make a film shot and located in that city.  But that’s about as ambitious as it gets.

Practically speaking, this film is an extremely substandard offering which cannot even justify it’s Rs. 1.3 crore spend. There really isn’t any script at play here. The characters go through the regular motions of college life. Most of it outside class though. The story of four friends- college drop out (Pj), Dipak has self-esteem issues, Sanket is carefree and the last Prashant, is  good with machines and bad in everything.. Pj gets attracted towards Rhea (Tanvi Lonkar) on first day of college and they go about the courtship in ridiculous fashion. Valentine’s day approaches and Pj proposes to Rhea.. Will she ? or Won/t She?  Everything changes thereafter.

Somewhat autobiographical in nature, the film follows the lives of the main characters with them trying to make a film in order to prove their worth. Worthy or not this is certainly a brave effort. But the unwieldy runtime, the shabby takes, the unattractive frames, the corny dialogues, the slo-mo pacing, the ridiculous costumes all make the experience one of total detachment. The silly sounding songs are the only amusement you can have here but even that can’t sustain because the length of each song is a killer!

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