Ugly

Cast: Rahul Bhat,Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure,Vineet Kumar Singh(Chaitanya), Surveen Chawla(Rakhee), Siddhanth Kapoor(Siddhant), Girish Kulkarni(Inspector Jadhav) and Abir Goswami(ACP Gupta)
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Genre:  Mystery, Thriller, Action



One movie unnecessarily tangled to impress. Even if hell lot of stuffs dont make sense, it still qualifies for an intense watch



You may look forward to:

• Anurag Kashyap's direction which blinds you from seeing all other lose ends comfortably. He presents to you an intense movie with complicated characters and as many twists you can think of
• The lead is Rahul Bhat, and acts pretty fantastic. You can see various expressions on him, as his life changes after this one uncalled for event. Also as his life flashes back and forth from past to present. Not a very known face otherwise in Big Cinemas, yet a performance worth remembering
• Ronit Roy, as usual gives out a power pact performance. He always ends up creating an impact with the kind of role he chooses to do in films, much in contrast with the roles we see him on TV
• Vineet Kumar Singh, another strong character based role, beautifully executed. Anurag Kashyap definitely knows how to get the best out of his caricatures
• Surveen Chawla is the only character which is most sensible of all others. She is the one who loses nothing and gains all the bonus. Smarty pants, well written!
• Girish Kulkarni and Abir Goswami, in very appreciable supporting roles. Specifically that of Girish Kulkarni, he gives you many chunks of laughter
• The blend of thriller with humor (in right places), works perfectly well with each other. The humor in the movie actually adds on to a lot of life in an otherwise serious vengeful flick

What you can sleep over:

• Tejaswini Kolhapure, is a misfit to this role in my eyes. For someone who is sought after by many men, including one aspiring actor/model. One has to be looking more than a middle class(Maxi wearing) house wife
• Siddhanth Kapoor is a unnecessary add on into an already chaotic movie. His role made absolutely no sense to me. Supposedly a brother of 'Shailini'(Tejaswini Kolhapure), coming from an affluent family, and doing a business in illegally smuggling electronics and always a broke, is beyond my understanding. Even his eccentric behavior when the movie is almost on the verge of ending, is absolutely exaggerated and not called for

The dampeners you should be aware of:

• So, this seems to be one movie, if watched from the Director's angle, manages to blind and hence create impact. Otherwise, the number of flaws are just too many, in the very conceptual level itself
• The story revolves around a missing child, everyone is so tensed and giving their best shots in tracking her. Firstly, this was out and out clear case when in the very beginning they show the actual culprit been found and killed in mishap, with enough evidence. Even if there were rivalries between 'Rahul' and 'Shoumik', what were the other cops doing? What were two ACP's doing? They kept going round and round the bush without doing the basic job of nabbing the first culprit and his suspect relative. They just kept playing fools in the hands of 'Shoumik'.Secondly,I wonder why were all the 3 parents so concerned about the daughter. None of the parent were responsible enough to raise a kid, nor behaved appropriate with the child ever, and to top it all, negligent in every respect, then why sudden love. And if all the hue and cry was not enough, 'Shalini' walks out of the home as the movie ends. Isn't she now bothered about this whether the child was finally recovered or not? She would rather choose to mind her own business.Thirdly, if 'Shailini's' parents had so much money, why would they risk their beloved daughter's life and not tell them first hand. 'Shoumik's' ego was understood, what about 'Shailini' herself?
• The very character sketch of 'Shalini' was so vague. She is coming from an affluent family, but has all sorts of below grade friends, she is herself shown getting physically involved with multiple men, regardless of class. I wonder coming from an educated and affluent family, why was she so helpless, why wouldn't she work and make her life, even when she was married with 'Rahul'? And boy oh! boy, Alia Bhatt representing her from college days was hilarious. Until,sometime i couldn't just figure who are those 3 people in the scene from college days. None resembled any close to their present looks. How far do people change from college, they are not school going kids after all!
• Coming to the next, half the movie was run and chase between 'Rahul','Chaitanya' and cops. I wonder when from the first instance you know you are being tracked, followed and tapped, why would you go and do all sort of nuisance over and over again! Any rugged head will get the crux of the matter. If not for this, the movie could be reduced down by 1 hour easily
• And finally, Ronit Roy has now started looking cliche, with the regular strict and cold attitude in every movie. Its actually quite an easy job for him to give same stern expression through out the movie. He doesn't need to act much. His repetitive roles kind of gives me a feeling, he is obsessed with such roles, which in turn gives me a feel, he is an abnormal person in real life:P
• To conclude, the more you think of the movie, the more flaws you find, i would still say not a bad watch :)

My Rating: 3/5