'Gumraah' Movie Review: Grrr...

Film GumraahDirector Vardhan KetkarCast Aditya Roy Kapoor Mrunal Thakur Ronit RoyRating 15This is typically what should be termed a lsquonarration walirsquo picture Meaning so plot heavy that the distance between the script and the screen gets first covered by a smart performative narrator who can convince a moneybag to invest in it based purely on generating supposed excitement over what happens nextThe oneline idea is simple and straight ldquoEk murder Do suspect Dono Humshakal One murder Two suspects Both lookalikesrdquo The point is Does it matterIt does initially in the sense that right from the first enactment of the killing in an elaborate opening sequence mdash the flashback shows you the actual murderer at the crime scene going about the crime itselfSo this isnrsquot a murder mystery that way But it is isnrsquot it Only the suspects have been narrowed down to two of the same bodyface mdash both being Aditya Roy KapurldquoCarbon copyrdquo as a character puts it here which is a wrong analogy because carbon copies are of different colours just saying yo when was the last time humans used a carbon for copy anywayOne Roy Kapur plays a posh civil engineer from IIT the otherrsquos a pointless strange kinda cityslicker sadak chhaap Irsquom of course more interested in the Posh Roy Kapurrsquos girlfriend Not because of the actor per se mdash whorsquos a newcomer I suspect and absolutely fit and fine for the filmItrsquos the characterrsquos profession though mdash she is a movie critic on the web As we speak Quentin Tarantino is making his next film titled The Movie Critic and we donrsquot know what itrsquos about yet Otherwise the only time Irsquove seen a professional film reviewer on screen is when theyrsquore getting slit wide open one after another in R Balkirsquos quasi slasher pic Chup 2022That said Irsquom not sure why this female character for a film critic exists Let alone whatever she does for a living mdash that involves watching ldquoforeign filmsrdquo and possibly even attracting an aspiring actor for a potential suitorShe works out of Gurugram This puts a whole different spin in my head to the Posh Roy Kapur character stalking her mdash literally every morning getting into her lift waiting around until her office floor and asking her outItrsquos not like the gabru jawans of Gurugram will be inspired by these loafer moves in the movie to turn into stalkers themselves I see them on Instagram They already areAlso Read Bholaa review Brain bola holaOnly that the person on the screen taking this persistence offline is the picturersquos handsome hero mdash a common sight in Hindi pictures of the rsquo90s not as much anymore Either way the hero expresses his love for the heroine in Mumbai airportrsquos departure Terminal 2 in whatrsquos supposed to be Delhirsquos T3 So at least thatrsquos sortedThe Pointless Roy Kapur on the other hand the ruffian bloke on the streets looks and feels nothing like the Delhi ka thug Unlike the actors surrounding him whorsquore quite spotonDelhi or lsquoNorthrsquo gundas and gents alike yoursquoll notice by and large are quite easy to cast Maybe because Bollywoodrsquos casting agents do a fair job surveying local talent and there is a thriving theatre scene as well Basically between movies and OTT series you discover new lsquoNorthrsquo talents every other dayI specifically loved the dude in a tracksuit who plays the Punjabi bloke breaking bones for a living Hersquos after the Pointless Roy Kapur character mdash only that hersquos as pointless as the villainous character himself What matters thenThe motivation for the murder Nope how can it We learn nothing about the fellow whorsquos been murdered in the first place mdash and on whom the film is supposedly centered I guess So then Well nothingSit through this nonsense pretending to be a cop and courtroom drama plus murder mystery with two police officers solving one crime in separate ways The senior is the dude Ronit Roy who can make you observe anything seriously on screen even when precious little makes senseAt the other end is Mrunal Thakur in smart Fridaycasuals for police wear cracking an important case where both suspects have been rounded up and lodged in the same police station Now the question is which of the two morons couldrsquove murdered an absolute nobody and why mdash the audience has already seen the how and whenThey must wait long enough to wonder why this movie got made and murdered at all I know why the two Roy Kapurs with their right and left brains mustrsquove picked this script That ainrsquot a mystery On paper itrsquos a polaropposite lead doublerole Who doesnrsquot want a whole picture whatever its pointpurpose dramatically set around two of themselvesAlso Read Bheed movie review That long walk of shameThat said this is beyond a clever lsquonarration wali picturersquo actually Itrsquos the other one where everybody involved has already recently seen the film in Tamil mdash as usual the writing outsourced to the Southmdashtitled Thadam 2019 that this is an official remake ofSo of all the subjects in the world this is where they decided to punt further passion and paisa into to replay on the big screen Irsquom told this version is better than the original Impossible mdash no space below

'Gumraah' Movie Review: Grrr...

Film: Gumraah

Director: Vardhan Ketkar

Cast: Aditya Roy Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur, Ronit Roy

Rating: 1/5

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'Gumraah' Movie Review: Grrr...

Film: Gumraah

Director: Vardhan Ketkar

Cast: Aditya Roy Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur, Ronit Roy

Rating: 1/5

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