Yami ‘steals’ the show. Cast: Yami Gautam Dhar, Sunny Kaushal, Sharad Kelkar, Indraneil Sengupta, Barun Chanda Rating: 2.5* Streaming ...
Yami ‘steals’ the show.
Cast: Yami Gautam Dhar, Sunny Kaushal,
Sharad Kelkar, Indraneil Sengupta, Barun Chanda
Rating: 2.5*
Streaming on: Netflix
The first thing about the trailer that was so appealing was that it was a heist film. But on watching the film it turned out to be a double bonanza of a heist and hijack. Though the title is a giveaway, the producers Dinesh Vijan & Amar Kaushik and director Ajay Singh manage to hold your attention albeit for some time. There is a lot happening once you are aboard the flight. There is a robbery, a hijack, and an escape!
The film starts with Ankit Sethi (a good Sunny Kaushal) being interrogated by deputy RAW officer Parvez Shaikh (a wonderful Sharad Kelkar despite limited screen time). Cut to flight attendant Neha Grover (a delightful Yami Gautam Dhar) who meets a vegan passenger Ankit Sethi on a flight to Delhi from the Middle East city of Al-Barkat. The air hostess helps a vegan passenger have her meal as no vegan meals are available on board. Ankit is a diamond insurer with a past and Neha has also suffered a personal setback in life (her father was killed by the underworld). A chance meeting at a nightclub has them falling in love. Their love story takes a turn when goons start blackmailing Ankit for a deal gone wrong. The unplanned baby of Neha (with Ankit) also gets aborted during a fight between Ankit and the goons Neha is kicked in the stomach. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between the goons and the couple and also their planning of the heist of diamonds (a phone studded with them) of the insincere home minister (a very different Barun Chanda) and the subsequent hijack in the film with dud bombs and guns where the militants want to land the plane in Kullu airport and demand the release of a militant from Kashmir jail.
The last quarter is full of twists and turns and revelations that take the film on a high but surprisingly it somewhat fizzles out in the end. The hijack is caricaturish. One deserved better with actors Barun Chanda, Indraneil Sengupta (as flight marshal) and Sharad Kelkar.
The film is a one-time watch but somewhere you feel that the film could have been a high-octane heist thriller that ended with a whimper.
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