Dobaaraa movie review: This Taapsee Pannu-starrer never feels like an Anurag Kashyap film
Time-travel thriller ‘Dobaaraa’ performs with a number of meanings (‘dobaaraa’ is the Hindi phrase for once more), and ‘do barah’ (2.12, twelve minutes previous two). An official remake of 2018 Spanish movie ‘Mirage’, the movie additionally makes an attempt to play with our heads. Is it doable to return previously, and alter issues?
A household strikes right into a Pune home, and within the strategy of settling in, discovers an outdated TV set-and- camcorder, which crackles to life throughout an enormous storm. Seems that the home has a darkish previous: thirty years again, just a little boy and his architect mum had been witness to what seemed to be a horrible crime in the home subsequent door, resulting in a tragedy.
Visitations from the previous, rocky marriages, and the main character Antara (Taapsee Pannu), ricocheting between the previous and current: the set-up is briskly obtained out of the best way, and we’re all set for some thrills and chills. Anay, the boy-from-the-past has individuals who bear in mind him within the current, and his reminiscences of an unresolved crime lie on the coronary heart of the puzzle Antara finds herself in: who’s she actually, a nurse with a dodgy husband (Rahul Bhat) and a fairly daughter, or an exceptionally gifted physician whose mentor (Nassar), is happy with her? Does the good-looking inspector (Pavail Gulati) who seems to indicate up wherever Antara is, know greater than he lets up? And the way will she discover her approach again?
Some puzzles draw you in with their smartness and intricacy. I haven’t seen the unique, so I can’t touch upon how ‘Mirage’ meshes its many strands, however ‘Dobaaraa’ comes off too uneven and muddled. It’s arduous to maintain observe of the numerous issues taking place within the time zones the film slips out and in of; the characters maintain going off on tangents, the intrigue goes lacking, and the movie flattens.
The largest puzzle is that ‘Dobaaraa’ by no means looks like an Anurag Kashyap movie. His trajectory could have been uneven, however by no means, at any level, did any of his movies not really feel like his movies, full together with his very particular authorial stamp. The place is that AK? I need him again dobaaraa.
Dobaaraa film solid: Taapsee Pannu, Pavail Gulati, Rahul Bhat, Saswata Chatterjee, Himanshi Chaudhry, Nassar
Dobaaraa film director: Anurag Kashyap
Dobaaraa film ranking: 1.5 stars
