Apurva

Apurva is a senseless film that hardly merits a review. It follows the clichéd formula of a predictable masala movie, with absurd plot elements. The protagonist, Tara Sutaria, effortlessly dispatching kidnappers one by one, reappearing mysteriously to lure and kill them, defies all logic. Another character's kidnapping serves only as a device for the protagonist to use a cellphone. Except for Rajpal Yadav's acting, the performances were mediocre. This movie is best avoided; I grew bored within 15 minutes, resorting to fast-forwarding to reach the end! Those who consider this as a good thriller should watch any of the 'Crime Patrol' episodes on Sony, a much better option to kill time.

Apurva is the story of a girl named Apurva who gets kidnapped by a gang of four gangsters and how she manages to escape from their clutches is the main story . It basically carries the NH10 flavors in it.

Apurva starts off extremely well. The four gangsters played by Rajpal Yadav, Abhishek Bannerjee, Sumit Gulati and Aditya are introduced as goons who enjoy watching people dying, screaming in pain , crying etc . A sense of terror is well established at the start. This continues for the whole of first half when Apurva gets kidnapped.

However, from the second half onwards, the film dips. Not only does it become a bit repetitive but it feels Apurva is managing to outfox the goons pretty easily. Repetitive because it just involves a hide and seek game in one location (which gave me Honeycomb maze vibes from Takeshi's castle) and it seemed the goons don't put forward the best effort possible to search.

The goons also don't pose any major challenge to Apurva and hence Apurva manages to outfox them pretty easily. This was something i did not like at all. I felt the challenges posed could be greater.

Like I said performance wise everyone including Tara Sutaria have done a great job. In fact this is the first time Tara gets to feature in a proper meaty no-nonsense role. It's definitely visible that she's worked hard for the role of Apurva which genuinely needed some grit.

There's a lot of gory scenes in the film. The shots taken of blood and flesh were pretty disturbing.

Dhairya as Apurva's finance is a waste. At the end you will realise he's there for nothing. His parts in the present timeline could have easily been chopped off.

Overall, a decent one time watch. A better second half treatment could have made the film to NH10's level.

I kept getting disappointed while I watched this. I don't know how they created a little hype for this by its trailer and promos, those scenes look big in trailer but has no meaning in the real movie. Abhishek Banerjee outshines everyone in this even though the writing is extremely poor. I've never watched any movie of Tara Sutaria and I didn't like her overacting in this movie. Rajpal Yadav tried to bring a change in his character through this but failed. Some scenes in the movie made me laugh for its stupidity. I've rated it 2 for the trailer and if you really wanna watch then go for NH10. Now I understand why NH10 was so good. I had to write this review because of my disappointed. If makers are reading this then please get a good plot next time.

The trailer looked really nice. So, I decided to watch this movie. After completing this movie, I am numb. Meaning, I am neither happy, nor angry. The movie story went straightforward. We already knew what was going to happen to the main character as it was already shown in the trailer. I just wanted to see the way the character would do that. The writing was really bad. However, it will keep you engaged for most parts. The ending was incomplete. The writer didn't told us about the aftermath of the incident after the lead character returns. Like, they didn't revealed anything about the goons, no actions were taken against the people who hired them, or they couldn't take the actions, in the story of the movie, none of that was mentioned. So, this is an incomplete movie and I felt numb after watching that. However, I'm a fan of Rajpal Yadav and he did really well. One of the guy in the movie with the glasses and beard, the final villain also did great performance. So, that it, 6 out of 10.

A thriller movie in which heroine is hero , faces different types of hard situations, but wisely or accidentally , is out of that danger . What Would be next & what will happen to her , would she be able to save herself & her prestige, are the questions in mind of viewer of the movie . Fortunately she wins & a happy ending . Situation , location , surroundings , night scenes of chambal valley , a well , police behaviour make that all real . The heroine , all the Villains have acted well according to their role & situation . Overall a good movie & i couldn't take break in between , till , it ended . Best wishes to the director & actors .