Malang Review – Stylized Failure With An Impressive Ensemble

Directed - Mohit Suri

Cast - Aditya Roy Kapur, Disha Patani, Anil Kapoor, Kunal Kemmu, Amruta Khanvilkar, Angela Krislinzki, Elli AvrRam, Shaad Randhawa.

A saga of revenge, Malang’s tale is narrated through five characters –  Advait Thaur (Aditya Roy Kapur), Sara (Disha Patani), Jezebel (Elli), Michael Rodriguez (Kunal) and Anjane Agashe (Anil Kapoor).

Sara (Disha Patani), a trippy NRI girl looking for excitement in the land of her migrant parents; Advait Thaur (Aditya Roy Kapur), a young man with responsibility issues; Michael Rodriguez (Kunal Kemmu) a straight-laced police officer, Anil Agashe (Anil Kapoor) a goon in cop uniform; Jezebel (Elli Avram), a Swedish expat who turns tricks for living.

The film has a lot of good qualities, first and foremost it’s a damn good looking and fit cast, so shirtless avatars, bikini walks and high dose of sensuality, ultra hyper dialogue delivery, all the masala elements are in the right spot.

The story and plot, is also engaging and for most parts thrilling and entertaining, but characters are just skin-level, no one has tried to dive deep and comes up an astounding performance.

Dark thriller laced with romance and drug infused exotic locals, can bring out a stellar performance and moments, but Mohit Suri, as usual fails and this time around fails with cast and story, perhaps a good budget as well.

The film wants to go with complex individuals grappling with demons inside them, but the narrative does not have the psychological bandwidth to deal with mental and emotional anguish with any degree of depth.

The screenplay of the movie is leaking of loop-holes which a common man can point out! By the time second half started, you know the filmmaker has run out of stuff and content, so let’s just start kicking ass. The film could have been an award winning AD for Goa Tourism, though.

Question one should ask, can cleavage, six packs and badass violence compensate for lack of content, depth, style, well structured story...First week will tell.

Right now, its waste of time and energy, of course, a total waste of good first time pairing as well! You could watch it once, so the relationship goals it might provide!