'HIT: The First Case' Movie Review: Fit

HIT The First CaseCast Rajkummar Rao Sanya MalhotraDirector Dr Sailesh KolanuRating 3Herersquos a question I have for you as an audience especially of murdermysteriessuspensethrillers Does your enjoymentengagement with a story depend entirely on the denouement or the payback when all the looseunexplained strings of a plot get resolved or come together eventually Or are you reasonably satisfied still so long as yoursquove remained glued to the screen right up till the end in the first place what more do you wantI use mystery and suspense here interchangeably Mystery of course refers to a puzzle that needs to be solved The suspense gets created from the audience wondering what will happen next HIT The First Case remake of director Sailesh Kolanursquos Telugu film of the same name is decidedly more a mysteryIn the sense that two female characters in this film mysteriously go missing Their disappearance could be interrelated First is a young girl who went out for a drive and never returned The second Sanya Malhotra is a forensics expert who was girlfriend of the lead character Rajkummar Rao who in turn is a hardcore investigative cop himselfThe HIT here obviously doesnrsquot refer to the filmrsquos fate at the boxoffice it did rather well in Telugu Irsquom told Itrsquos abbreviation for Homicide Intervention Team a special cop force of sorts in the manner of say SIT Special Investigation Team that most state police constitute for highprofile crimesThe film is set in Rajasthan specifically Jaipur it seems mdash especially Jaipurrsquos Ring Route Toll booth on CCTV footage where a curious piece of the puzzle is embedded giving you also a sense of how worldclass Indiarsquos highways look on screen compared to the dumps we used to travel through in the rsquo90s Sure there are rhythm issues and the story here doesnrsquot quite unfold as seamlesslysmoothly as those roads Yoursquore hooked alrightThe filmrsquos adequately got the dark feels for a drama exploring the underbelly At the centre is Rao as the cop of course This is his first action film meaning so much a heartpumping action as extensive mortal combat scenes fist fights etc These sequences are solid As is Rao no doubt He hasnrsquot overly bulked himself as a hulk for this part But no state cop looks like Rambo either He shows up looking totally washed out going through personal hell suffering from a posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD pyrophobia experiencing panic attacks on occasion I guess we werenrsquot as familiar with these terms from psychology when actors like Al Pacino Heat played such parts back in the dayThe cop here is advised complete rest by his therapist which must include resigning from his uniformed job As with a lot of people with similar issues the cop finds sufficient solacedistraction in work itself The lack of which will make his life worse he believesBeyond an action film or indeed a mystery or suspensethriller HIT is a police procedural The case is personal for the lead character Because it involves him directly Such stories are often called a lsquoslow burnrsquo That was Mare of Easttown This is anything but The script is too tight for a deeper meditation Yet if yoursquore a sucker for good lines helps to have one in a genre flick too Loved the one where the cop explains how there are two types of police ldquoOne is the actual police that stops others from doing what they shouldnrsquot The other is the moral police that stops others from doing what they wished to have done themselves but couldnrsquotrdquoThis officer otherwise isnrsquot a major philosopher hero Neither do the other characters seem as obviously onenote villains The events donrsquot occur like predictive text Yoursquore intrigued enough to figure whatrsquoll hit you Itrsquos perfectly okay if nothing earthshattering does Where do people most commonly access such crime fiction lately Besides books on podcast and OTT series usually Whether itrsquos delusion or laudable selfconfidence HIT has been released as the first part of a film seriesHence titled First Case The Second Case guessing already in the works is supposedly to be a prequel Whether Irsquoll wait with excitement for that is another matter This one holds your attention through and through and thatrsquos about as much as one should hope for anywayWhat about the end now that yoursquove managed to stay up for it after all Ah Irsquom not sure yoursquore going to be particularly pleased with that one bro I certainly wasnrsquot But then as a character spouts the lovely clicheacute about life here ldquoItrsquos not the journey or the destination that matters What matters most is the companyrdquo Was happy to be here for the while it lasted

'HIT: The First Case' Movie Review: Fit

HIT: The First Case
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Sanya Malhotra
Director: Dr Sailesh Kolanu
Rating: 3

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HIT: The First CaseCast: Rajkummar Rao, Sanya MalhotraDirector: Dr Sailesh KolanuRating: 3

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HIT: The First Case
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Sanya Malhotra
Director: Dr Sailesh Kolanu
Rating: 3