मिसिंग

Please watch this movie. Don't listen to people who are self proclaimed so called critics. This film has a great plot and has great performances by the greatest and most competent actors of Hindi Cinema.

The movie is very slow in the first half; there are many scenes which are not at all required, it is just waste of time. The actual story unfolds in the later part of the second half and few good twists are also there. But you will need a lot of patience to watch this movie till the end!!

How important a screenplay (or for that matter a story too) is even when brilliant actors like Manoj and Tabu are in, is conveyed in this film. The highlight of this film for the audience and the writer(s) was 'keeping the suspense alive' whether the suspense was logical, whether the writing made sense, whether the dialogues were apt/ realistic, didn't matter to the makers.

The entire film had horrible dialogues which isn't what someone would say at those moments. Obviously the actors did their best (Tabu in particular) but if the screenplay is faulty (except for a salman khan film) then nothing works. As if this wasn't a torture, they had an unnecessary song in the film. The film is very predictable from one scene int he beginning half itself. Very cliche writing and nothing in the film works.

Manoj Bajpayee is absolutely brilliant as an opportunistic and philandering womanizer in Mukul Abhyankar's ambitious psychological drama Missing that is largely led by Tabu. Hers is the main character here, who steals focus from her audience as this worried mother of a young girl named Titli, who goes missing later in the film. Missing narrates the story of these three characters as Annu Kapoor, playing an Indian cop in Mauritious, heads the investigation of the missing child. Abhyankar's writing is tight and you are going to be hooked since the first frame itself. Apart from the gradual unfolding of events, and thereby the truth, there's an air of suspense throughout the 120-minute running time as you try to predict what will happen with the characters. Sometimes funny but always thrilling, Missing works because of writer-director Abhyankar's solid direction and execution. Bajpayee shines better than Tabu, although it is the joint effort by the entire cast that makes this more worthwhile. I am also impressed by the score by M M Kreem, which compensates the issues I have with the plot and the several holes in it. Even if you regard these issues as problematic, the unexpected climax and the consequences of all the proceedings makes Missing an above average thriller. They hardly make such films in Bollywood, so it is important for us to take note and appreciate when they do. Catch it when you can. TN.

A decent thriller which revolves around 3 characters enacted by top-notch actors especially Manoj Bajpayee, the climax reminded me of the yesteryear movie 'Kaun'. Nevertheless one can give it a try, it's available on Amazon Prime and it's way better than all the noise created by Bollywood for Crore Club crap movies.