Deceptive Chehre
When I saw the trailer of the movie, I thought it was quite intriguing and was actually excited to watch Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi sharing the same screen space. But unfortunately, I was highly disappointed.
For a start, the casting song with Amitabh performing was a little overdone by the director, Rumi Jaffrey, and was not as thrilling as one would have contemplated.
At first glance, the cast seems brilliant in every manner with Annu Kapoor, Dhritiman Chatterjee, and Raghubir Yadav, although they were actually not given enough stance as they deserved. Well, Kapoor and Chatterjee had some fine screen time and dialogues but Raghubir Yadav was completely neglected in the movie. On the other hand, Rhea Chakraborty could not have acted worse.
The story began with some quite predictable scenes and the set up of an unsurprising dramatic movie. It took a lot of time to actually got to the point of the narrative. The building up of the drama was really slow and then after almost an hour, it started becoming boring.
Personally, Emraan Hashmi has always seemed to be a fine actor no matter how the movies have scored at the box office. But this time it was devastating to see him overacting in a lot of scenes. It could be the pressure of standing in a room full of powerful actors or maybe the screenplay was actually faulty.
This movie also saw a new look by Amitabh Bachchan which was, once again, refreshing to look at. The woollen beret and the long beard tied at the chin was a stylish and elegant look that suited Bachchan very well.
With a formularized storyline and a not-so-exciting conversation between the actors, the ten-minute monologue at the climax by Amitabh Bachchan on law and justice along with women safety was loosely clichéd and not worded appropriately.
The ending was also a bit drag with a dull chase scene and a preposterous finale. The director tried to show an open-ended conclusion but it was not as interesting as expected.
I will give the movie two stars only as I could sit through its entirety just because of the actors, otherwise it doesn’t have anything else worth looking out for. Yes, not even the songs, which is shocking being an Emraan Hashmi movie. It’s for certain that we must not judge a book by its cover neither must we watch a movie because of its actors as “chehre” might be deceivingly deceptive sometimes.