Anirudh (Jimmy Shergill) and Niharika (Hrishitaa Bhatt) are university students. With a couple of songs and a peck on the cheek, love blooms between the two. Meanwhile Anirudh befriends a college leader Ranvijay Singh (Irfan Khan) who uses him to win votes from the students. Turning a deaf ear to the warnings of his friends and lover, Anirudh gets sucked into the dirty world of Ranvijay's politics. He shoots a man and has to flee to Mumbai. But when he realizes that he has fallen prey of Ranvijay's conspiracy to marry Niharika, he decides to fight back.
The movie starts off impressively depicting a realistic picture of the unrefined environment at the U.P. campus. The crude behavior and aggressive lifestyle of the characters is deftly portrayed. Every aspect of the political functioning and the gang-rivalry is looked into, in detail.
But the outcome is hampered when the plot deviates from campus politics to the predictable zone (love story of an obsessed Ranvijay) in the second half. The director fails to clarify many points in the narrative. For instance, when and where does Ranvijay develop an attraction for Niharika? And how does Niharika's father agree to marry off his daughter to this gangster, while he doesn't approve of Anirudh? After repeatedly pointing fingers at the corrupt political functioning, a chief minister turns out to be good at heart (because he used to be a school headmaster once)! Certainly not a good idea to terminate the otherwise hard-hitting story! Also the much-talked about climax at Maha-Kumbh lacks novelty. The dialogues and language used in the film give it a very real and earthy feel.
One word for Hrishitaa gorgeous, that's it. Jimmy emerges out of his candyfloss image. The scene-stealer, of course, is the sulky-eyed Irfan Khan inducing life in every frame of the film, flawlessly.
Certainly not a masterpiece, but a good break from the usual stuff
The movie starts off impressively depicting a realistic picture of the unrefined environment at the U.P. campus. The crude behavior and aggressive lifestyle of the characters is deftly portrayed. Every aspect of the political functioning and the gang-rivalry is looked into, in detail.
But the outcome is hampered when the plot deviates from campus politics to the predictable zone (love story of an obsessed Ranvijay) in the second half. The director fails to clarify many points in the narrative. For instance, when and where does Ranvijay develop an attraction for Niharika? And how does Niharika's father agree to marry off his daughter to this gangster, while he doesn't approve of Anirudh? After repeatedly pointing fingers at the corrupt political functioning, a chief minister turns out to be good at heart (because he used to be a school headmaster once)! Certainly not a good idea to terminate the otherwise hard-hitting story! Also the much-talked about climax at Maha-Kumbh lacks novelty. The dialogues and language used in the film give it a very real and earthy feel.
One word for Hrishitaa gorgeous, that's it. Jimmy emerges out of his candyfloss image. The scene-stealer, of course, is the sulky-eyed Irfan Khan inducing life in every frame of the film, flawlessly.
Certainly not a masterpiece, but a good break from the usual stuff