Directed by: Mohit Suri
Release date: July, 2011
Release date: July, 2011
The team with the golden vision is back. They don’t need big budget or a famous foreign locations or a super start for their films. They make super stars. Sanjay Dutt and Emraan Hashmi are the HEROS which they have given to our industry. If we talk about off-scene heroes, we have Mohit Suri and Anurag Basu and number of editors/ cinematographers/singers/music directors etc. You name any department in filmmaking and we will find their contribution in it. But this time they miss and land up nowhere. The movie may be a HIT but will not satisfy the audience who follow cinema regularly.
This team is back with Mohit and Emraan under a very successful name – MURDER.
First of all, it’s not a sequel for Murder (2004). The story is totally different and has no connections expect the name and the team behind it.
About the Story – Emraan Hashmi is an ex-cop (GOA Police); he left the service because he needs more money for himself (I don’t understand why can’t he makes money while being the system, everyone in India does the same). As usual (like his previous films, he does not believes in GOD). Jacqueline is a model and in love with our hero. One of the gangsters gave the task to find the missing girls from his business. And here comes or Villain Prashant Narayanan, who is psychopath killer. No chocolates to guess the end J
It’s a great concept, but very normally written, edited and presented. Actually I would say a milestone from the Indian cinema has been wasted. The team has so much potential that they can make a normal love story to look like a classic. But they miss on this masterpiece. The story (Mahesh Bhatt) is not at all appealing. There are not interesting events or twists. Screenplay (Shagufta Rafique) is like I am watching a horror serial on TV. Nothing new, you can actually tell what is coming your way. Chalo, agar humme pata bhi ki story me kya hona walla hai to bhi mere bhai make it interesting. Cinematography is again normal. This time Ravi Walia took some inspirations from Tony Scoot (in camera) and use rolling/moving cameras in couple of scenes. That’s all, nothing else to mention about the camera work.
Special Mention – The only thing to cheer about is the song/music. They are awesome; at least 3 songs are on the chartbusters these days - Haal-E-Dil, Aa Zara, Aye Khuda are among them. “Phir Mohabbat” will work like a slow poison.
Bhatt camp needs to understand that we are living in a world where – SAW, final destination, wrong turn, Hostel etc are already made a mind set in the audiences. We are not comparing our cinema with the West, but in the world of Internet when films of every region are readily available. So, the challenges are rising for in-house film makers as well. Moreover – common things are getting repeated like – hero does not believe in God, so we will have a song for it and in the end he realizes that he is wrong. The whole system can’t do it (though they want to) and they need to rely on an ex-cop.
So, why it is not a good film? When I went to watch the movie I was not there to see Emraan kissing Jacqueline. I was there to watch brutal, erotic, dark, corrupt and bad movie. Why the hell it’s not there. Why the hell heroin was not beated or raped or at least tortured badly. Why Prashant was not asked to cross his limits in acting. You have a Villain which can bring terror in each scene. Though he was good but we know he can deliver a national award performance (bagwaan jaane kis baat ka intezzar kar rahe hai bhatt camp waale). Moreover the end is so much predictable that you will hate it.
You can watch it once, but unfortunately don’t expect anything exceptional in it.
