Review of Gumraah: Why did audience reject the film?
Gumraah
Rating - 1/ 5
Director - Vardhan Ketkar
Writer - Aseem Arora
Magizh Thirumeni
Story- Magizh Thirumeni
Producers- Bhushan Kumar,
Murad Khetani, Krishan Kumar, Anjum Ketani
Cinematography- Vineet Malhotra
Editor - Sahil Nayar
Music-Ketan Sodha,Mithoon, Vishal Mishra, Tanishk Bagchi, Abhijit Vaghani
Duration -129 minutes
Starring- Aditya Roy Kapur, Mrunal Thakur, Ronit Roy, Vedika Pinto, Keeya Khanna
Filmography - Some important film's
Aditya Roy Kapur
1) Guzaarish ( 2010)
2) Aashiqui 2 ( 2013)
3) Malang ( 2020)
4) Sadak 2 ( 2020)
5) Ludo ( 2020)
6) Rastra Kavach Om ( 2022)
Mrunal Thakur
1) Love Sonia (2018)
2) Toofan ( 2021)
3) Dhamaka (2021)
4) Jersey (2022)
5) Sita Ramam ( 2022)
Overview:
Gumraah is a remake of 2019 Tamil film Thadam where murder investigation of a young man takes an unexpected turn when the cops discover that the prime suspect has a lookalike.
My take:
Acting
Aditya Roy Kapoor is in a double role. Audience can barely tolerate him in a single role, imagine what will happen in a double role? He has been acting since 14 years with only one or two hit films. His last released film "Om" was a huge flop. He cannot carry a film as a solo hero.
Mrunal Thakur is not a heroine material at all. She has one constant expression in throughout the film. A big disappointment!
She enters the plot in the film at the crime scene where she’s not in a police uniform but in jogging tracks. Pretty absurd !
Same goes for Ronit Roy with single expression throughout. Just bad acting.
Vedika Pinto is decent in a pretty big role. But there is no need of long romantic tracks in thriller films.
Direction
Vardhan Ketkar is the director for this remake of a hit Tamil film. One doesn’t need any qualification to make a remake film. Even a small Bollywood technician can direct it if he knows how to say Sound, Light, Camera and Action.
Story, Screenplay and Dialogue
This film is an action, crime and thriller film. But you will witness none of these. Except the beginning 10mins and 20 minutes of the climax, the film drags for 100 minutes devoid of entertainment, comedy, hard hitting dialogues and hit music.
Till the interval, the film is in the flashback mode. Too many scenes have been forcefully inserted which have nothing to do with the main plot.
Music
The music of the film is bad despite 4 music directors in the film. It’s painful to the ears.
Today's music directors take big fat money and don’t do any hard work to make good songs. It is better that films are made without music. Why waste crore of rupees when the music director fails to deliver a single hit song!
Editing
Good start and climax but the rest of 100 odd minutes ends up torturing the poor viewers.
Box Office
With so many choices, people don't have the money to go and see Aditya Roy Kapur in theatre.
Not only Aditya Roy but other artists like Sidharth Malhotra, Arjun Kapoor, Raj Kumar Rao, Vicky Kaushal, Sunny Kaushal, Bobby Deol, Manoj Bajpayee, Ritesh Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan and many more are made for OTT only. Makers should stop them casting as solo heroes for theatrical release.
Audience don’t have time to see such artist’s films on OTT platforms even for free, so forget they will pay Rs. 200 to 500 /- to watch them in theaters.
Film Gumraah has got a poor opening. Shows are likely to get canceled at many places.
Life time collection of the film would be will be hardly INR 5 crores to 7 crores.
Verdict: A Disaster !