Masaan

Cast: Richa Chadda, Vicky Kaushal(Deepak), Sanjay Mishra, Shweta Tripathi(Shalu),Pankaj Tripathi(Sadhya) and Nikhil Sahni(Jhonta)
Director: Neeraj Ghaywan
Genre: Drama



Off beat, yes; quality watch, no! It is strictly a pass time flick!



You may look forward to:

• Richa Chadda and Vicky Kaushal, are the leads of the film in two parallel running stories.Vicky Kaushal in particular gives out a fab performance, he has more diverse expressions. While Richa Chadda is good in her defined role
• Sanjay Mishra is a class apart actor. He can pull off serious roles as confidently as comedy. In here as father, vulnerability of the character is depicted beautifully by him
• Shweta Tripathi,Pankaj Tripathi and Nikhil Sahni in brief supports. The most empathized role being that of Pankaj Tripathi's :) Nikhil Sahni is adorable and so is Shweta Tripathi
• This movie is watchable for the performances only, that of which too is nothing extra ordinary

What you can sleep over:

Direction. I believe a better direction could have changed the face of this film. This was a very average directed movie



The dampeners you should be aware of:

• The story of the film is very passe. Small town love, cliche; filled with some slightly forced tragedies, doesn't make up for a good a story. There are many faces of tragedy apart from death alone. If people dying could make up for a quality story, in that case, every action movie will qualify for one :) Bottom line, not every off beat movie is a quality watch
• The feel of the movie just leaves you depressed by the end of it. You wonder what did you gain out of this flick. No entertainment, minus any quality story with some ok to do performances, none to boast about!

My Rating: 2.5/5

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