Collar Bomb

Poor direction,listless acting by Jimmy Shergill.

Frankly gave up after 20 minutes of viewing.

Total waste of time.

A simple and effective plot - A cop races against time to stop a suicide bomber holding school children hostage. The bomber forces the cop to commit illegal acts in order to save the children, and there is a twist in all of this.

"Collar Bomb" is thriller with nice story on paper but it has been poorely executed. Despite the film's intriguing concept, direction and execution are very poor and choppy.

Director Dnyanesh Zoting not able to create that necessary tension and thrill element in this one. The film looses its steam from start itself which is very very slow and the climax is just bad.

Performance wise Jimmy Sheirgill, the only strong point in the movie is very impressive as a cop. He try to carry the film but at the end of the day the writing and direction was very bad.

All in all this is a avoidable thriller. Very poorely made film.

I watched Collar Bomb in orig. Hindi w/Eng. Subs on Disney+Hotstar.

The basic crime plot is pretty good ... The film is set in Sanawar, Himachal Pradesh. Sr. Inspector Manoj Hesi(Jimmy Shergill) is being felicitated at a memorial for a deceased student Neha, at a prestigious Sanawar school. Neha a teenager went missing while strolling in the woods with her classmate. The classmate told the police that someone tried to molest them and while trying to escape, Neha went missing. The police found her body in a deep well where she had apparently fallen. Hesi and his jr Negi (Ajit S Palawat) saw a young boy running through the woods. Thinking him to be the suspect, they caught and beat him so badly that he died. They then both shot him in the back to make it look like he was escaping. The post mortem Dr is persuaded to state that Neha was molested by the dead boy. A botched up case is successfully closed as solved. Nobody else knows the truth. Cut back to the memorial where suddenly there is a shooting and a teacher gets injured while a young boy looking like a fully armed suicide bomber Ali (Sparsh Srivastav) with a device on his collar, pounces into the scene. The boy makes various bizarre demands that are to be fulfilled if the children are allowed to leave the hall alive. Hesi convinces Ali that he will get the demands fulfilled and is allowed to proceed.

The rest of the film though engrossing, goes thereafter to bizarre and way too convoluted. A lot of unseemly incidents have been going on in ostensibly peaceful Sanawar which come to light. Eventually the bomber is disarmed but the truth about the police encounter killing of Neha's purported molester gets exposed and Hesi is convicted. But the truth about Neha's death is something else altogether. Watch the film to find out more.

This could have been an excellent crime thriller if it had not got so bizarrely convoluted.

The story and the characters have no link to one another. Lot of loop holes in the story? What was the connection of the bomb kid and the maid? How did she trapped the kid to be a sucide bomber? What were the 2 girls doing in the forest for 4 days?

These makers had a gem of a plot in their hand but sadly a poor execution lets down the film.

I will be very honest, the film is quite fast paced, short and interesting as well and keeps you guessing who is behind the suicide bomber but very soon it becomes to some extent predictable. I mean they shouldn't have even shown glimpses of Shergill's past which 50% spills the beans but but.....you still wont know who RITA might be until the film actually discloses it (which is why i said 50% spilled the beans) .

The climax is very poorly written which otherwise had immense potential to be a really heart pulling one (short spoiler, you might just be reminded of RATSASAN the film once the secrets are disclosed).

Performance by Shergill is good no doubt. Sparsh as the clueless rookie terrorist is also good the way he acts he makes sure he looks a rookie.

Many things have no explanation as well. Hence Collar Bomb just stays an average suspense thriller which you can watch as a timepass.