Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene Hindi Movie Review

Director Gurmeet Singh the man who presented What the Fish with Dimple Kapadia now appears with his take on rom-com turned thriller. The problem with the film is how the film maker fails to sustain interest in a script that makes 108 minutes seem eternal. One wold expect this designed for the multiplex product to have a little more fizz, but so tame and insipid is the product that you begin to yawn even as the protagonist spreads butter on his slice of bread minutes into the film.
The story line is wafer thin. It is about the penny counting architect Prithvi Khurana (Zayed Khan resurfacing) who suddenly hits the jackpot when he realises that his account has a 100 Crores. His lazy roommate Sam (Rannvijay Singh) finds this a God sent opportunity to squander and continue a life style of non-accountability. Prithvi soon realises that the amount comes with a huge hidden price tag. He has been chosen by Dawood of the D gang and he is to withdraw sums on his dictates and deliver where told. While the commission for the task is carrot, the stick is too uncomfortable. While roommate Sam is privy to the development and also abettor to the tasks called upon, his girlfriend Megha (Tina Desai) is unaware while snooping at the suspicious goings on. So far so good. It starts of as a simple romance in the urban backdrop with contrasting guys and a gal with her romance with one of the guys.
Things get messy when the guys hit a plan to take a part of the booty without authority. Things turn complicated when the news arrives that D is dead. The telephonic demands however do not stop leading to the question as to who is it who is stalking the guys. We have two other chanced characters in the script Rashida (Talia Bentson) and the banker Dhavan (Anupam Kher). With the unknown stalking the threesome and the cause unknown, you have to unravel the mystery on who is behind the entire activity and why.
The film simply lacks a spirit. It is as if the film maker has been forced into storytelling and the task has been unwittingly taken. The central idea like What the Fish is an interesting premise but the execution is extremely and visibly half hearted. The cast is adequate and interesting. Zayed resurfaces to play the central character of a guy lost and worried. For a guy whose screen personality is so different this is a challenge well taken and equally well delivered. Rannvijay Singh is that archetype hardly youngster full on one liners low on activity. He in fact gets the punch filled lines which he delivers with consummate ease. Tina Desai has a terribly etched roll. She walks in and out of the script at the whim of the film maker who is any way at gun point narrating the story. The result is that even the 100 minutes of the film seem eternity and the lay out is about things you are positively disinterested in.

Rating : 2 stars.
+ Zayed and Rannvijay
– Very half hearted