There are two points that participate in creating a good/very good movie: balance of direction and a good story. However, in one case, the movie has high chances to turn out trash. Meaning to say, a good story line but below average screenplay/direction. And this movie falls in this category.
Inspired by true events, and of-course when you talk about chambal dacoits, it is highly probable that such type of event/events would have happened. A kidnapped person who turns on the table to its side and releases itself -- a very good story with a perfect blend of horror, thriller, and mystery.
Movie starts great. Four dacoits overtake a car and kills all present inside, in a span of ten minutes. One dacoit is a sharp shooter - bravo. Everything was going all fine, these highly skilled actors are doing their part well, when enters the protagonist of the story - Tara Sutaria.
Till her kidnapping, she doesn't get much chance to show her skills. And neither does the director/writer. But after that, the movie starts downhill at a speed of 200 km/hr (just sarcastically). And what doesn't work, is something i am going to highlight:
1. She is barefoot, but runs like a skilled Paan Singh Tomar all around the deserted village with sharp stones and spokes here and there. She is even able to beat highly skilled dacoits (whose primary skill include running) in run race, not once but many times.
2. The place where dacoits stay, like Veerappan, is a place which is fed in their mind like knowing ABCD to an English language Professor. A simple chirm could warn them the position of the object. And yet, she is able to outrun Jugnu making him fall in the well. Just a pathetic dacoit.
3. I would have loved to know her past where she had shown her bravery, and skills, rather some melodramatic and unnecessary love scenes that only dragged. A mix of two would have been much better.
4. It felt like this movie is a mix of many hollywood/bollywood movies like 'I spit on your grave', 'lake placid', 'NH 10', 'Jungle (2000)' and may be many more. While those movies weren't also too good, this fell below them.
5. At last, she is moving bare foot on the railway track. And one dacoit is behind her who wants to know her name. Really!!! If i remember correctly, he was the one who talked to Sid like 6-7 hours back over a phone call, and Sid asked two three times about Apruva, taking out her name aloud.
Well, there are many more such silly and undeniable flaws that would take me another 2-3 hours to jot down.
4 stars for the first half, and nothing more.
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