Shyam Singha Roy (2021)

There is honestly nothing more annoying than a movie that has flashes of being a good movie, but turns out to be a bad one anyway. Not only have you watched a bad film, but you have also been cheated of all hope and it's exhausting, to say the least. 

Also, when this movie is a first day first show, you can't help but feel betrayed. Full "I trusted you!" moment only. 

The first half was so tedious to sit through, I genuinely thought of leaving after the interval at one point. I didn't though, because Sai Pallavi only made her entry in the second half, and let's face it, she was the real reason for me to go watch it anyway.

I mean, Nani was a huge pull factor too, but after Tuck Jagadish (2021) and V (2020), I was a little wary of trusting this man completely. As I should, because look what he made me sit through... again! (I swear to god, if the Nazriya film isn't good, I just might never watch a Nani movie ever again).

Back to Pallu though- she is the only redeeming grace in the film, and one can only curse whoever was responsible for letting her tremendous power down like that. She stuns, she almost makes you forget the first half, and she has incredible chemistry with Nani— if they had made her role a little stronger and longer, one could even have been persuaded to forgive the film for all its mistakes.

But nah. Suffer one must!

Also, the music is bad. Headache-inducing bad. So yes, there's practically nothing to look forward to except Pallu. And the cinematography, if you're into that sort of stuff.

Lastly, I want to say that the last scene could have been epic— sobbing and clutching my heart and remembering it years later level epic— had they focused just a little more on the story and made it as good as it deserved to be. Sigh.