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Film: Wajah Tum Ho
Director: Vishal Pandya
Cast: Sharman Joshi, Sana Khan, Gurmeet Chaudhary, Rajneish Duggal
Genre: Thriller
Stereotyped romance and commercial thriller has always been Bollywood’s most favourite genre though there’s been a slight change in the scenario lately. From the hide and seek murder tales to some seriously unthinkable twists, Bollywood has painstakingly limped towards carving a niche in this specific genre. Although the archetypal Sherlock holmes and Agatha Christie style stories and plots continue to dominate the Bollywood thrillers.
After making two sleazy horror-thriller, Hate story and Hate Story 2, Vishal Pandya chose a similar dish and presented it on a different plate to his viewers in the form of Wajah Tum Ho, which has some well-known small screen actors as leads.
The movie kicks off with a live murder scene streaming on a news channel called the Global Time Network. The scene baffles the staff, viewers and the police. Everyone is clueless about how the whole murder was telecast on the national television and nobody could do anything about it. Jolted by such an open assault, the police force began their quest for the murderer in full swings. On a surface level, the whole idea of a live murder being shown on the television seemed extremely intriguing. The plan was known, the only thing the audience was waiting for was the proper execution of the plan that appeared extremely promising.
As the story progressed, it became more like the game we played as children where we had to remove box after box in order to find that one single toy. The story had different layers to it, just when you thought you know the murderer; there was a different twist to debunk your myth. What lagged immensely was the performance of the actors. Gurmeet Choudhary, whom we have completely loved as an incarnate of Lord Rama in the small screen seemed a bit disconnected from his character of a lawyer while Sana Khan, a big-boss alumna mistook this movie for a skit and play-acted throughout the movie without realising the significance of her role. It’s only towards the end of the story she switched from play-acting to some serious “acting”. Sharman Joshi, however, tried his best to do justice to his character of a police officer. Rajneish Duggal too faired well as an antagonist.
Other than the poor acting, the English language was ruined as some of the pronunciations went horribly wrong and it only made us wonder how such wrong could happen without anyone taking note of it.
But keeping aside all the follies, the story has a certain amount of newness in the form of twists and turns that forces a viewer to lean forward from his recliner and wait for the mystery to to be unravelled. It captivates the audience in spite of its shortcomings and that definitely makes it a one-time watch!
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