Movie Review - Tera Intezaar - by Suhel Johar

Tera Intezaar Is Boring And Bizarre.

When the filmmakers are obviously banking on Sunny Leone’s oomph quotient and some peppy numbers to do the trick, you know it’s not going to work – especially since it’s all become so stale and uninteresting of late. Supposedly a romantic thriller, Tera Intezaar takes the ‘lovely locations’ (Mumbai, Kutch and Mauritius) route to win over some audience, but even that small objective appears to be a far cry.

Art Gallery owner Raunak (Sunny Leone) falls in love with a natural Artist, a painter Veer (Arbaaz Khan). But then Veer disappears, and the rest of the film takes us on a precipitous search for true love with the help of a medium (Sudha Chandran) and some but obvious villainy – heavy laden with songs, scantily clad nubile displays and copiously manufactured intrigue. By the end of it you are left reeling from the overwhelming capriciousness of the entire exercise in futility.

The forced inserts of levity and the addition of thrills don’t add interest either. There are so many flights of fancy that it’s difficult to relate to what’s happening here. And it’s really hard to sit through an entire film where poster man and woman do nothing but preen in front of the camera in pretence of something bigger. It is a film that shouldn’t have progressed beyond the scripting desk.

Sunny hasn’t worked her magic in a long time and even hit music can’t make a film run nowadays. The addition of Arbaaz Khan into the mix doesn’t do anything for the film either. He is just too wooden an actor to be able to make anything look believable. Even his so-called highly publicised chemistry with the Sunny Leone draws a blank.

Direction Rajeev Walia’s narrative skills are nonexistent and his attempt to make a film can at best be called amateurish. Story by Anwar Khan is insipid while his script written along with Raajeev Walia needs a hard-nosed logical test to keep it grounded. Dialogue by Anwar Khan and Raajeev Walia are ordinary. Johny Lal’s cinematography is lush and colourful, but unable to bring deadwood like Arbaaz and Leone alive. Editing by Raajeev Walia is poor. Music by Raaj Aashoo is not bad.

Performancewise, there’s not a single one that is worth mentioning here. Besides Arbaaz Khan and Sunny Leone others who feature in the cast are Aarya Babbar, Sudha Chandran, Gauhar Khan, Bhani Singh, Richa Sharma and Salil Ankola

On the whole, wonder why anyone would want to see a bizarre film like Tera Intezaar, when even the producers were unwilling to showcase it for the critics before its release to avoid negative buzz.

 

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