Sleaze fest at Bhat factory-Murder 2

    Half way through the movie, the victim Reshma (Sulaghna Panigrahi) , brutally done helpless, clueless screams for help from the pit of a well. This sums up the audience state of mind as well.

        Without a compare with Murder, this film is a strain on your nerves and a shocking indulgence at smooch and sleaze .  The Bhat factory has worn itself out with the raw material it once flaunted with style and substance even substance. After the initial  reptile inspired gyrations in skimpy leathers by Yaana Gupta to are taken to a smooch seminar involving ex cop Arjun ( Emraan ) and small time model Priya (Jacqueline) Time for cat calls and whistles and for Director Mohit Suri to pat himself on his back and tell the film maker that he has delivered and that his  target audience is lapping up his formula.  Unfortunately he is making a different genre of a film and it needs at least a pretence of a story and script. This cannot be just smooch and sleaze exercise.  The end product appears to be a product at gun point

        The story line is about the ex cop Arjun who is paid big money by the under world of Goa .  This time over his assignment is to catch up with a serial killer who is the latest Bollywood avtar of Jack the Ripper and has this against traders engaged in Lady Warrens profession.  Even a stupid police force would have seen the connect between the victims and got cracking. Our ex cop with his trade mark looks hunger and  lecherous appetite hangs out without commitment with Priya and just about the time when he is expected in the luxurious villa for Christmas eve, he is out there tracking the serial killer and his latest victim Reshma (Sulaghna Panigrahi) The serial killer is a transvestite hang over from Sadak who is perverse for definition and exaggerated for effect.

        Into this script enters a trans gender character who decides to flex arms with the police and soon falls a victim to the serial killer.  The police are in a chase and there are  some foreign victims too and a suggestion as to how we investigate high profile cases and not those of the poor.  Reshma it is suggested has taken to flesh trade due to poverty.  We have the cop Sudhanshu Pandey (who looks wholly misplaced as a cop and must revert asap to the cookery shows) who aids the ex cop when he finds that he is not getting enough support from his colleagues.

        The screenplay now alternates between the suffering of the victim and her attempt to escape on the one level and the attempt of the ex cop and the present cops to catch up with the serial killer.

        With a script about a serial killer focused on sex workers you would have thought it is cake walk for a film house with some standing.  Your expectations fall flat.  Brazenly sleazy and disorganised to a fault , even the actors perform like they were caught up in a hurriedly put up amateur school drama . Only the theme is not for the parents day!!

        The film is woefully out dated in approach and treatment.  The script seems to have been retrieved from an archive and does no body any good. 

        There is also a serious issue with this being palmed of as entertainment.  The premise needs to be revisited in the context of the times we live, the tides we face .

LRavichander.