Movie Review – Nirdosh – by Suhel Johar

Nirdosh Is A Ridiculously Painful Murder Mystery

 

Directed by Directed by Pradeep Rangwani and Subroto Paul, the Arbaaz Khan and Manjari Fadnnis starrer Nirdosh is a stupid murder mystery. Nirdosh Is A Ridiculously Painful Murder Mystery

The film begins with the arrest of a harried-looking Mumbai-based media professional Shinaya Grover (Manjari Fadnis) and she’s the prime suspect in the murder of her smarmy neighbour (Mukul Dev). Arbaaz Khan plays an inspector Lokhande, a rakish cop who’s assigned the high-profile murder case. During the investigation Lokhande zeroes down on multiple suspects in the case. Every time he gets new twist. Shinaya’s husband Gautam (Ashmit Patel) to save his wife confesses that he committed the murder. While, Manjari admits that she is the murderer which leaves Arbaaz perplexed and the twist prevails.

Punctuated by shoddy writing, collective bad acting, cliched dialogues and juvenile sub plots, this murder mystery is likely to push any unsuspecting viewer to stage a walkout even before the killer is revealed. There are multiple characters in the film, and none of them are sketched as human begins. They’re just written to serve the poor plot. The plot of the film seems quite weak. The story builds well in the first half. The story could be even better in the flashback. The way of filming is like the 90s suspense thriller. The story, such as it is, isn’t very good, and the performances are so bad that people are likely to get angry and ask why the film was made.

Directors Pradeep Rangwani and Subroto Paul are clearly inept in making the film interesting. Some of the actions scenes are particularly laughable. Writer Amit Khan urgently needs some crash course in how to write a good plot, screenplay and dialogues, Cinematography are Arun Prasad is very bad, as it is not able to create a tense environment and instated leans on the cliched dank and dark shadow like lighting. Editing by Sanjay Sankla is weak. The music of the film could be even better while, background score is also good.

Performancewise, from the beginning, it’s clear that Khan has the grand ambition to play the super cop in this film. While his hugely successful brother Salman Khan could pull off playing a cheeky police officer called Chulbul Pandey in the Arbaaz-produced (and directed) Dabangg series, his sibling is relatively uncharismatic to pull off a tough-as-nails cop role. His face remains wooden as he rattles off statistics about his own success rate, but the same couldn’t be said about Fadnis, who’s gratingly screechy and hysterical in most scenes. Ashmit Patel, who plays Gautam, her supportive husband, isn’t any better. Of the unimpressive lot, it’s only Maheck Chahal and Mukul Dev who try to inject some believability to their grey roles. But the murder mystery, laced with betrayal, blackmail and seduction, doesn’t have enough teeth to grip us.

On the whole,  Nirdosh, laced with betrayal, blackmail and seduction, doesn’t have enough teeth to grip the audience.