Critic's Rating: **1/2 Cast: Vinay Pathak, Mahi Gill, Mona Singh, Saurabh Shukla Direction: Shrikanth Velagaleti Genre: Crime Duration: 2 hours Readers Rating: **  |
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Story : On the eve of splitting with girlfriend, Mahi Gill, Vinay Pathak meets up with Mona Singh who is heartbroken too. But that's just the beginning of his troubles as he gets embroiled in a crime racket with a look-alike gangster, a detective friend (Saurabh Shukla) and a lost bag of crisp moolah.
Movie Review: A bag bursting with bank notes always creates big trouble, both in real and reel life. There's always a lot of people running around in knotty circles to grab it and there's always a low premium on honesty and fair play. So get ready for another fair is foul-foul is fair drama that has energetic bits and pieces amidst some mediocre stuff. Questionable too is the narrative structure which might seem innovative to few but gets clunky and incoherent for the average viewer who might just lose patience trying to keep pace with the back and forth jumps.
So what's engaging? Ordinary bloke Vinay Pathak's interludes with mysterious stranger Mona Singh. But the same Vinay Pathak simply blows it as the Pink Panther-like gangster with his unfunny French and his overdone gigs. Equally disengaging is Mahi Gill's moll act which strangely lacks all the spark she displayed in Dev D. Sadly, the actor is still looking for a foothold in Bollywood despite an impressive debut.
Intermittently interesting, Utt Pataang has a problem of plenty. You've seen this so many times in experimental gangster noir.
Movie Review: A bag bursting with bank notes always creates big trouble, both in real and reel life. There's always a lot of people running around in knotty circles to grab it and there's always a low premium on honesty and fair play. So get ready for another fair is foul-foul is fair drama that has energetic bits and pieces amidst some mediocre stuff. Questionable too is the narrative structure which might seem innovative to few but gets clunky and incoherent for the average viewer who might just lose patience trying to keep pace with the back and forth jumps.
So what's engaging? Ordinary bloke Vinay Pathak's interludes with mysterious stranger Mona Singh. But the same Vinay Pathak simply blows it as the Pink Panther-like gangster with his unfunny French and his overdone gigs. Equally disengaging is Mahi Gill's moll act which strangely lacks all the spark she displayed in Dev D. Sadly, the actor is still looking for a foothold in Bollywood despite an impressive debut.
Intermittently interesting, Utt Pataang has a problem of plenty. You've seen this so many times in experimental gangster noir.
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