Neeyat Movie Review: Naah, niyet!

Film NeeyatUA Crime mysteryDir Anu MenonCast Vidya Balan Ram KapoorRating 155No seriouslymdashwhat kinda desi old dude has a proper girlfriend on the side along with the hot secretary who pretty much doubles up as a life partner besides a tightsqueeze whorsquos married to the best buddy and a bunch of blokes singling mingling at a party in a private mansion in Scotland Letrsquos seeThis old gent here has also defaulted on massive bank loans in India And while he seemingly has all the money in the world to host a grand soiree in Scotland with gora butlers for his closest friendsfamilymdashthousands of his corporate employees havenrsquot been paid salaries over two years Why they havenrsquot still left that job I donrsquot understandBut letrsquos concentrate on this guy Is he Modi Choksihellip No One look at his neatly trimmed thick white stubble and an impeccable sartorial sense you know Naam hai Vijay Mallya Thatrsquos what actor Ram Kapoor would have you believe he plays in this pictureFrankly my dear I really like Ram Kapoor There is a certain swag for a cool portly bloke that he so effortlessly carriesmdashyou just like to watch him on the screen Any screen even him petting his dog on Instagram will do Whatrsquos he doing here though Trying too hard to pull off a dead script really that may not even belong on stage forget YouTubeWhich is true for the other top actors brought on board as wellmdashRahul Bose in a creepy homosexual archetype Shahana Goswami as the ditsy golddigger variety the GenZ star Prajakta Koli as a youngling with a cokehead type boyfriend who could well be modelled on Sidharth Mallya who knowshellipAbove all of course Vidya Balan whorsquos saved for the last walking in deliberately dressed shabby with a devilmaycare attitude that might fit the detective Miss Marple alrightOkay so you can see some of the best performers around The director of this film Anu Menon Waiting Shakuntala Devi has been generally quite lucky with snagging a great castBut what did they even say yes to signing up for this flick thatrsquos about the Mallya lookalike committing suicide that turns out to be murder where everyone in the mansion is a prime suspectI know Agatha Christiersquos And Then There Were None was rated her best novel yet But seriously in 2023 itrsquos just terrible to have a deserted island scenario as a triggerstarting point for any story Let alone set in the First World where a death will count for far more than a storm thatrsquos cut all communication to the scene of crimeThat the good olrsquo man has died seems to bother the people around him much less than the fact that they should now all quietly sit on their sofas to figure whorsquos the murderer knowing that theyrsquore part of such a storyEven as the killing hasnrsquot stopped The film thereafter feels like a supremely selfaware tableread with actors reading their parts as if itrsquos the plot that they will eventually filmThe inspiration is clear Thatrsquos Knives Out 2019 for suremdashtheatrical footfalls of which had astounded the film industry otherwise sworn to the thought that audiences only flock towards spectacle pixUnsure why its sequel went straight to Netflix If anything the best Indian response to Knives Out probably was Honey Trehanrsquos Raat Akeli Hai 2020 set in a haveli of Uttar PradeshAnd as we speak of Christie in fact Vishal Bhardwaj has dropped the pilot episode of his crime fiction series Charlie Chopra based on The Sittaford Mystery that at least so far holds promise Which is the thing with this genreIts followers are serious geeks You canrsquot get away with inanities such as this flick where every minute the needle points to an individual And what the writers have to show for it is a fresh conspiracy theory that doesnrsquot once involve the viewers joining any dots ever Doesnrsquot work like thatOr you could simply go frivolous for the heck of it to bring in more mainstream audiences Such as what Balan did with Bobby Jasoos 2014 It is one of her most underrated movies in the same way that this ranks among her dullestWhich descends from the oldman industrialistprotagonist within a few hours listing his most ldquoloved onesrdquo that hersquos gathered as ldquoleechesrdquo for no reasonThatrsquos about the time the film also swiftly demotes itself from a whodunnit to who cares The characters mill around regardless assuming in their head that they have a clever masterpiece up their sleeve The big reveal so to sayMy favourite line in the film though ldquoItrsquos dangerous to believe in your own bullshitrdquo Applies equally to Neeyat Naah wish had said niyet to this totally

Neeyat Movie Review: Naah, niyet!

Film: Neeyat
UA: Crime, mystery
Dir: Anu Menon
Cast: Vidya Balan, Ram Kapoor
Rating: 1.5/5

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Neeyat Movie Review: Naah, niyet!

Film: NeeyatUA: Crime, mysteryDir: Anu MenonCast: Vidya Balan, Ram KapoorRating: 1.5/5

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Film: Neeyat
UA: Crime, mystery
Dir: Anu Menon
Cast: Vidya Balan, Ram Kapoor
Rating: 1.5/5