Shadow

A sentence would do: Don’t watch it. But we would give you a glimpse of the painful experience of watching it – reason being, someone uttered in the theatre during the interval, ‘please give your tickets to your enemies, they would be dead’! The movie claims to make history in the world of cinema – for a blind man acting and dancing in it. With due respect to those who can’t see, this movie can’t prove anyone’s talent, forget history… Because we are here to appreciate acting, not sympathise. And the answer to its tagline, ‘Shadow: The dark side of truth’ is forget the truth, it’s just dark.

The philosophy of the movie follows Amitabh Bachchan starrer Aankhen, with a twist to it.  Serial killer Arjun Sherawat (Naseer Khan) has no identity and police is going crazy behind him. Sanjana (Sonali Kulkarni) is a smart cop and is given the responsibility of finding Arjun. Sanjana tries her best to catch him for 6 months in which she fails. Sheetal (Harshitaa Bhatt) and Rahul (Milind Soman) are passionate journalists with two different media houses. There’s a scope for one sided love in the film, that’s Sheetal’s love for Rahul but Rahul is in love with his profession only. There is a police-criminal encounter, a lot of obvious dramas and so on… The mystery continues amidst lot of confusion.

Naseer tried to do a SRK in Don with his dialogues like “Namumkin ko mumkin banane ke liye hi log Arjun Sherawat ko Muh mangi kimat dete hai”. Milind Soman’s natural wrinkles did justice to him as a workaholic journo, but Harshitaa? If the character needed so much of mindlessness, Bollywood is not in dearth of it – at least give some beauty if not acting. And Sonali Kulkarni, the horror is back with some extra pounds. Naah, it’s not being meany – she needs to spare everyone the horror and herself those flabs.

Music was quite Anand Raaj style. Choreographer Ganesh Acharya surviving the team Shadow in itself is commendable. Director Rohit Nayyar makes a blind man play a gunman, on a serious note it shows his great spirit. But whether to watch the movie or not? Go for it, if you’re ‘absolutely’ jobless that you would kill yourself anyway!