TSI Five-O: Interesting plot led astray by stale storytelling
While some movies are bad enough to write a good review, there are those rare average ones that compel you to think what was stopping the makers from going that extra mile? “Karthik Calling Karthik” is one such. Though it doesn’t connect in a way that will make you jump from your seat the way a good suspense-thriller would, it doesn’t make you cringe either.
Karthik (Farhan Akhtar) is a brilliant IIM graduate possessing almost zero social skills who works at a construction company and is bullied by his landlord. He is made to feel like trash by his colleagues and his boss. Shonali, the girl he has a crush on (Deepika Padukone), doesn’t even know that he exists. To run away from all this, he decides to end his life, but as he is about to do so, he gets a call from a guy claiming to be Karthik, his alter-ego, who helps him get his job back, gets Shonali closer to him, and a good lifestyle. The caller Karthik forbids him from sharing the secret with anyone else, but Karthik goes ahead and confesses to Shonali anyway and finds his life devastated right after that. In the blink of an eye, he loses his job, life’s savings and Shonali.
Though the suspense factor is foreseeable, the challenge for the makers was the treatment of the movie. The concept is interesting but director Vijay Lalwani doesn’t play around much with the idea. As a thriller it could have been paced faster but the film drags in the end and there are no real nail-biting moments. Farhan convinces as a meek timid guy who transforms into this uber cool and super confident lad. His comic timing doesn’t hurt either. However, Deepika doesn’t quite come across as the boyfriend-changing-cigarette-smoking-up-town-girl she is playing. It is cutesy and fun in places, mildly intriguing at best; overall, just about passable.
While some movies are bad enough to write a good review, there are those rare average ones that compel you to think what was stopping the makers from going that extra mile? “Karthik Calling Karthik” is one such. Though it doesn’t connect in a way that will make you jump from your seat the way a good suspense-thriller would, it doesn’t make you cringe either.
Karthik (Farhan Akhtar) is a brilliant IIM graduate possessing almost zero social skills who works at a construction company and is bullied by his landlord. He is made to feel like trash by his colleagues and his boss. Shonali, the girl he has a crush on (Deepika Padukone), doesn’t even know that he exists. To run away from all this, he decides to end his life, but as he is about to do so, he gets a call from a guy claiming to be Karthik, his alter-ego, who helps him get his job back, gets Shonali closer to him, and a good lifestyle. The caller Karthik forbids him from sharing the secret with anyone else, but Karthik goes ahead and confesses to Shonali anyway and finds his life devastated right after that. In the blink of an eye, he loses his job, life’s savings and Shonali.
Though the suspense factor is foreseeable, the challenge for the makers was the treatment of the movie. The concept is interesting but director Vijay Lalwani doesn’t play around much with the idea. As a thriller it could have been paced faster but the film drags in the end and there are no real nail-biting moments. Farhan convinces as a meek timid guy who transforms into this uber cool and super confident lad. His comic timing doesn’t hurt either. However, Deepika doesn’t quite come across as the boyfriend-changing-cigarette-smoking-up-town-girl she is playing. It is cutesy and fun in places, mildly intriguing at best; overall, just about passable.
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