Very Hollow, Man
Film: Mr.X
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Amyra Dastur
Directed by: Vikram Bhatt
Duration: 2 hrs 5 mins
Rating: *
Mr. X has been promoted as a
science fiction and action film. Be assured, there is no science, no fiction,
as for the action, you can give it a miss too.
Devoid of any logic or common
sense, the screenplay treats its audience as someone who has a single digit
I.Q. It appears more like a project to
test how much ludicrousness the viewers can take.
Emraan Hashmi plays Raghu, a
works for the anti-terrorism department along with his fiancé Siya (Amyra
Dastur). He is set up and framed with the charge of killing the C.M. and the
story doesn’t have plot holes, it has craters of the size than can be found on
Mars.
After he is presumed dead, a
rather distraught looking lady working in a lab discovers that there is some
strange chemical reaction happening in his body and injects him with a serum
that has not been tested and voila, he becomes invisible. He is seen though in
sunlight and ultra violet light. Don’t expect any Arthur C. Clarke like
explanation as to how and why that happens – this is a Bhatt production.
If you expect the script to get
any sensible once he becomes the Hollow man, you are dead wrong, it only gets
worse.
Towards the end, there is a
memorable line which is uttered - the heroine is in the shower (she is shown
there once before) when the invisible man joins her, she asks if those who
cannot be seen need to have a shower, pat comes his reply – “jo log gayab hote
hain unhe nahane ki nahin pyar ki zarrorat hoti hain” (Those who are invisible don’t
need a shower, they need love).
I rest my case.
Published in The Navhind Times, Goa on 19th April 2015
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