Visphot, a thriller around Mumbai’s underworld belly, drugs, the social-divide, betrayal, corruption, and survival, directed by Kookie Gulati and starring Riteish Deshmukh, Fardeen Khan, Priya Bapat and Krystle D’Souza is out on JioCinema. Read the full review here…
Overall Review : 3/5
Plot : ‘Visphot’ is the official Hindi remake of the Venezuelan hit Rock, Paper, Scissors (2012) which deals with characters from different corners of social-divide, colliding with each other causing trouble, confusion, miseries and reality checks. The story centers on two main characters: Shoeb (played by Fardeen Khan), who comes from a crowded, struggling neighborhood in Mumbai, and Akash (portrayed by Riteish Deshmukh), a wealthy pilot living in a high-rise. Their paths unexpectedly cross one day after a series of life-altering events. Shoeb, despite his innocence, becomes ensnared by criminals, while Akash’s life spirals into chaos after he uncovers his wife’s infidelity and his son mysteriously vanishes. Akash later learns that Shoeb has kidnapped his child. What begins as a personal crisis quickly escalates into a high-stakes, dangerous situation.
What We Liked : The way they have shown how these two entirely different worlds collide with each other thus showing behavior patterns of a person who never expects imbalance to come in his life and how he would act upon versus the one’s who is always struggling and surviving daily is on point. Not to forget, Priya Bapat shows tremendous promise as we as audience, begin to hate her character and that is where she cores as an actor.
What We Loved : The return of Fardeen Khan and Riteish Deshmukh together but in a completely different format. Though this film should ideally have been the return of Khan as he had signed this way before Heeramandi, he has given a layered and gritty performance mixing his experience and spontaneity to the T. Also, Deshmukh scores again in his role of an entitled, rich and privileged pilot who finds himself in misery. Seema Biswas is phenomenal in her role too!
What We Didn’t Like : While the first half is stretched and as the audience knows what is coming given they have already seen the trailer, it falls flat at points. Also, the plot is overused and there is nothing new as this formula has been used since the 80s at the movies. The superior performances have saved the flat screenplay.
Conclusion : If you are a fan of thrillers rooted in the underbelly of Mumbai and want to see the actual return of Fardeen Khan in the movies, Visphot is definitely your watch else you can give it a miss!
