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by : Harish |
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Starring:
Rohit Roy, Tanushree Datta, Neetu Chandra,
Anupam Kher, Bobby Darling, Mushtaq Khan,
Nassar Abdulla
Direction:
Jagmohan Mundhra
Music:
Bappi Lahiri
Production:
Magna Films |
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'Single
white female' the Hollywood thriller gets
remade after almost 2 decades. The rebooted
version by Jug Mundra, the famous erotic
film director is supposedly a crime-erotic
thriller but ends up being a horror for
all those who was brave enough to pay
money to watch this movie, though the
much talked about bathing scene of Neetu
Chandra would have made many to take a
plunge.
Quite frankly the movie was too predictable
to be branded a thriller and too less
a skin show to become erotic too. Apart
from the bathing scene, a not so revealing
sex scene and a crass item song, the movie
had nothing much too hoot about by the
front benchers. Maybe the movie with a
title as 'Jawani ki rang' or 'Apartment
mae do Ladki' could have brought in more
B and C
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audience but with such an A centre Movie title, the
movie might well be welcomed with empty theatres across
the nation. The last few scenes did remind me the
Tamil hit movie 'Kaadhal Kondain', but that’s
just me.
The story is about Preeti (Tanushree Dutta) who suspects
her boyfriend, Karan (Rohit) to be cheating on him
and breaks up with him. And as Karan and Preeti were
in a live-in relationship she had to find a new roommate
to handle the rent. She finds Neha (Neetu), an innocent
orphan who makes Preeti's life very easy. But Neha
is no ordinary woman as she is suffering from schizophrenia.
There is this friendly neighbour Madhusudan (Anupam
Kher) who suspects Neha. So what happens next? Can
u predict? Of course you can, that’s the story
of 'The Apartment'.
The entire movie has a period effect to it. Maybe
they have shot a decade ago, maybe the movie would
have found takers a decade ago, but not now. The movie
has a fast paced first half and a too predictable
and clichéd second half. And sometimes we just
want to ask Mr. Mundra why he takes the audience for
granted time and again? He thinks in a single scene
if the protagonist's hair becomes shorter and longer
and then shorter again we wouldn’t notice? A
police officer who comes to investigate a murder,
stands at the doorstep asks for the suspect and when
he gets an answer that the suspect is yet to come
home he will decide to go off asking him to report
back when the suspect does, is ridiculous. There are
many such problems all over the movie which does account
to intentional humour.
Technically the movie is brilliant to 90s standards
but this is no 90s. Cinematography by Uday Tiwari
looks lame and tired. Editing by Mr. Mundra himself
has loads of jump cuts and has no proper flow. Lot
of continuation problem also makes the viewing even
more difficult. Music by Bappi Lahiri is a complete
let down. Background score being the only area where
the movie gets a pat but only BG cannot decide the
fate of a movie, can it?
Acting wise the movie does get a positive response
with Neetu Chandra continuing her superb form and
comes up with a good act. Her erotic scenes does help
in upping the temperature, with the famous bathing
scene getting some seeti's from the few viewers at
the theatres. Tanushree Dutta acts confidently and
has improved a lot from her early days. Rohit Roy
is good but not great. Anupam Kher acts as per the
requirement. The rest of the cast overacts their small
roles.
Overall a movie which would not be recommended by
us to pay the high multiplex fee to watch. But maybe
an ok watch if you have not seen the original or any
other relationship based thrillers.
Verdict:
The Apartment is Vacant in the complete sense
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Tanushree
Dutta,
Neetu
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