Despatch

Anwar Says: The film was marked as thriller but you are hardly thrilled. Tension is found only on the face of Manoj Bajpayee , not in the movie. It took eight years to get released, this Kanu Behl directorial debut, containing all the ingredients for investigating journalism but your wait doesn't end till the film is over. The role, though tailor made for Manoj , but he should reconsider the decision to carry the movie alone.

The supporting cast did well, particularly the females in the life of Manoj. His frustration of a disturbed married life, hardly get solace with a much younger girlfriend and the occasional fling with co-journalist Noorie, ably played by Rii Sen. So many angles were put in like 2G spectrum scam, shell companies , D-Company and hardly finds any breakthrough.

On the whole, I had lot of expectations after watching Behl's TITLI and AGRA , when Manoj is in the lead but was disappointed. 4 out of 10 from me.

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Cinematography of this film is beautiful. Manoj Bajpayee! I don't know how he do it. You can't believe it is the same daring guy of Family Man or Ek banda kaafi hai. He served the movie so well with his acting skills. All the characters were good, the movie lacked in storyline only. You won't be engaged with the film till end though it will give you chills in many scenes. Also the climax was not satisfying. You can only watch this film if you're a Manoj Bajpaye fan. Rating it 6 because the effort of the director and producer was great to make this a good film, they just missed a good storyline.

If you are a Manoj Bajpayee fan and expecting something similar to Family Man, Aiyaari, Silence, 100 etc. Then you will be disappointed. Very slow. Unnecessary vulgar scenes. When the story and presentation does not have spice, making vulgar scenes will never. In Short, Bakwaas. 3/10 is a higher star rating for this. Too many characters possibly trying make reality in movie. Sometimes, as an audience one may start thinking which character is the story referring to and feel just lost. I am a great fan of Manoj Bajpayee and have seen many of his top quality movies or series. This one is even worse than Bhaiyaji. I think Manoj Bajpayee is almost in the end of his era of lead roles. Manoj sir. You have an image in public mind. Please don't destroy it.

I know most people gave low ratings but i still liked it to a lot. One time watch. It was not able to invoke any good emotion. Not thriller not anything much. I liked Manoj's acting but again . Underutilized.

There were just too many unnecessary movie scenes that could be definitely removed. They were not carrying the movie it was supposed to go.

Its about the life of a normal reporter who was caught in the in the middle of a big scam that was far bigger than him. Then its just how he tries to play tom and jerry. But ultimately its was happens all the time. There were a lot of non fiction elements to the movie. Few instance mentioned in the movie were relatable to the news that took place. I though it was going to be such of a biopic kinda of a scam. Well. Sadly.

The movie fails to engage with the storyline, and I don't understand why Manoj Bajpayee was made to deliver his dialogues so slowly as if he had some kind of speech problem. I was very excited about this film, but honestly, I had to look up the scam it was based on to better understand it. In a nutshell, if you're not familiar with this scam, you won't be able to grasp the movie fully.

The movie fails to engage with the storyline, and I don't understand why Manoj Bajpayee was made to deliver his dialogues so slowly as if he had some kind of speech problem. I was very excited about this film, but honestly, I had to look up the scam it was based on to better understand it. In a nutshell, if you're not familiar with this scam, you won't be able to grasp the movie fully.