Dhokha: Round D Corner

The actor-producer Kaushali Kumar delivers an impressive performance of a complicated character. Despite the tacky camera and edit and a couple of leads acting badly, its Kaushali's intense on-screen emotional labour that keeps one invested in the film. To speak much of the complexity of the character is to reveal too much of the plot but she manages to seamlessly blend the multi hued character into something composite and believable. Madhavan is experienced in the art of delivering powerful performances with minimalism and does so here too. It is the other performances that pull down the film. The policeman and the terrorist characters are badly written and performed, one speaks with a terrible accent that has the ability to kill whatever emotional graph the film is climbing or plunging into. The story itself is predictable in the sense that it lays out a complicated challenge for the characters but ends with easy resolutions. It starts out as a deep dive into the human psyche but gives up too easily.

A mentally unstable woman who is alone in the apartment stumbles accidentally upon the terrorist who wants to negotiate with the government. All character have grey past. The story is intriguing no. Well, the script , the dialogues and the acting is a big let down.

When Aparshakti, madhavan are limited to cringy and clumsy dialogues you sometime feel like "what a waste of pool of talents " . The script has so many plotholes that you keep on wondering "why the hell is this happening ?" In this movie.

Climax is so hurriedly created that you won't believe that what the creators are trying to show you.

What a waste of my weekend.

Sameer lodaya

The movie is just timepass which you can really afford as it's a 100 rs week

After so much of thrill watching on ott it doesn't surprises you much and becomes very easy to judge the climax

The new girl in town khushali has stealth the show she looked gorgeous and have acted very well probably she was the best within all the others actors in the film aparshakti was also good

After some time you feel dragged as the story was rotating in same axis and then as usual they rush in climax

If you get to see in 100 rs it's worth or else wait for digital release..I hope Bollywood continues this 100 rs trend to drag people in theatres.

No thrill or suspense about the movie. From the very start it went down the slope. The whole idea around the story was quite predictable and the follow ups was also not up to the mark.

If someone doesn't have any movies to watch for - they can give it a try. However would recommend not to go for it.

The biggest disappointment was the role of Aparshakti Khurana - someone with a natural accent would have done a better role for Gul, as throughout the movie, it seemed like overacting and even the dialogues was mundane.

The actress is without doubt the shining light in the movie.

Wouldn't recommend to watch.

The film did have potential, the script had not one but numerous opportunities to encash the positives, but it couldn't, or should I rather say it did not want to. The anecdote in itself was not half bad, as can be noticed in the last act, where the film seeks redemption but alas! It was already too late.

It would have easily been a decent, serviceable movie, but what made it poorer was its inferior screenplay and an even weaker direction. As well as the lousy, over-the-top performances. I never would have imagined that I will have to see a talented man like R. Madhavan delivering one of if not the worst acts to date.

Quite similar remarks apply to both Aparshakti Khurana and Darshan Kumar as well. I refrain from criticizing Khushali though because it is her debut role and I strongly believe in giving chances, thus, we will have to wait and see her in at least one more work to come to any sort of judgment (in respect of her capacity as an actor).

But the names that I mentioned before are in the industry for years, thus their performances should be criticized accordingly.