Typical AK movie focusing on the dark and the ugly in the world, yet gripping to watch. However, I was disappointed with a number of unanswered questions and illogical events.
Spoilers Ahead*
The mask seller who died had to be the prime suspect all along. Yet the police are so inept that they never mount a serious investigation into his and his aunt's antecedents till the end of the movie. The police even mount a nationwide hunt and recover many abducted children, yet they choose not to pursue the most logical line of investigation till the end. How convenient for the director!
Rahul and Chaitanya commit several serious crimes such as armed robbery and assault and buying illegal arms. Yet they walk around free. The robbed jeweler presumably did not lodge any FIR, in order to not make things difficult for the director!
It is not clear why Chaitanya had been such a help to Rahul earlier but now wants to help himself to ransom money? He is a prime suspect in the eyes of the police after his first ransom bid, yet the police allow him to walk away, and then make a second bid. The police does not put him under surveillance or confiscate his computer or search his office immediately after the second ransom bid, even though they know he had attempted this earlier. How convenient for the director!
Shalini gives away the ransom money but makes no attempt to secure the child in exchange or even convince herself that the child is alive and she will be returned. Who behaves like that?
Her father is shown to be well off and loving. She is herself educated and from a good family. Yet she endures ill-treatment from her husbands for herself and her child but does not seek her dad's help.
Rahul kills Chaitanya in a rage supposedly because he realizes that Chaitanya has been lying to him about Bose abducting the child. Yet he does not ask himself why would Bose do this for ransom and assuming he did so, why would he release the child later, because his motive is supposedly to frame Rahul and not lay his hands on money.
There are many other illogical details such as these. This is the main grouse I have with films and directors that purport to be realistic and intelligent, yet assume that their audience does not have a brain and will accept anything. And looking at the critics raving about this movie and its ratings, who would blame them?
Spoilers Ahead*
The mask seller who died had to be the prime suspect all along. Yet the police are so inept that they never mount a serious investigation into his and his aunt's antecedents till the end of the movie. The police even mount a nationwide hunt and recover many abducted children, yet they choose not to pursue the most logical line of investigation till the end. How convenient for the director!
Rahul and Chaitanya commit several serious crimes such as armed robbery and assault and buying illegal arms. Yet they walk around free. The robbed jeweler presumably did not lodge any FIR, in order to not make things difficult for the director!
It is not clear why Chaitanya had been such a help to Rahul earlier but now wants to help himself to ransom money? He is a prime suspect in the eyes of the police after his first ransom bid, yet the police allow him to walk away, and then make a second bid. The police does not put him under surveillance or confiscate his computer or search his office immediately after the second ransom bid, even though they know he had attempted this earlier. How convenient for the director!
Shalini gives away the ransom money but makes no attempt to secure the child in exchange or even convince herself that the child is alive and she will be returned. Who behaves like that?
Her father is shown to be well off and loving. She is herself educated and from a good family. Yet she endures ill-treatment from her husbands for herself and her child but does not seek her dad's help.
Rahul kills Chaitanya in a rage supposedly because he realizes that Chaitanya has been lying to him about Bose abducting the child. Yet he does not ask himself why would Bose do this for ransom and assuming he did so, why would he release the child later, because his motive is supposedly to frame Rahul and not lay his hands on money.
There are many other illogical details such as these. This is the main grouse I have with films and directors that purport to be realistic and intelligent, yet assume that their audience does not have a brain and will accept anything. And looking at the critics raving about this movie and its ratings, who would blame them?