Movie Review | Sanak: A Slick, Old-fashioned Action Thriller – FilmyVoice
‘Sanak’ is an immensely slick, if additionally old school and formulaic, entertainer. Vidyut Jammwal followers and motion buffs will lap up this taut thriller, which is ready totally in a hospital constructing.
Vidyut Jammwal is Vivaan Ahuja, an MMA (Blended Martial Arts) coach. His spouse, Anshika Maitra (Rukmini Maitra), a coronary heart affected person, winds up within the hospital for a medical process. On the day she is meant to be discharged, a bunch of goons led by Saju Solanki (Chandan Roy Sanyal) take over the hospital in an try and smuggle out Ajay Pal Singh (Kiran Karmarkar), a corrupt arms vendor who’s in for a pacemaker alternative.
Author Ashish Prakash Verma cleverly buildings the actioner round Vivaan, a loyal husband who would go to any size to deal with his spouse. His true id, as that of an MMA coach, is revealed at a a lot later stage of the story, thus making the motion scenes believable.
Vivaan finds himself pitted in opposition to a dozen hijackers who’re a deadly and formidable drive – they’re extremely educated specialists, and they’re out-and-out monstrous. Like most leaders, Captain Saju Solanki is an egomaniac who mouths unimpressive strains with panache.
It’s amusing to listen to him defy Vivaan with “blah … blah … sanak” with nice aplomb, not as soon as however a few instances. It’s humorous as a result of the character simply lacked displaying the craze or obsession.
Additionally, sadly, the broader political setting of ‘Sanak’ is so superficial and exterior to be the core motion that it turns into mere standard ornament. Neha Dhupia, regardless of giving a reasonably aggressive efficiency as ACP Jayati Bhargav, seems like a mere stooge.
Certainly, what’s lacking from the movie is a vigilant intelligence, a way of latest immediacy that will cost the story with better pleasure. In different phrases, the plot lacks high-tension moments.
However the enjoyable of such predictable fare relies on exhilarating motion set-pieces, of which the movie has lots. Scoring once more on this level is the stunts grasp who delivered seamlessly choreographed motion sequences and enlivened the in any other case simplistic narrative.
‘Sanak’ stays wholly throughout the conventions of the motion style, missing any thematic turns or twists. The anticipated climax, a man-to-man battle between Vivaan and Saju, comes on the very finish. It’s also too transient and disappointingly staged.
Director Kanishk Varma’s fast, by-the-numbers model, and Pratik Deora’s ingenious lensing of the hospital’s inside and exterior scenes, construct the mandatory suspense.
Saini S. Johray’s manufacturing design deftly sweeps viewers proper into the hospital’s spacious however intense world. Particular kudos additionally go to editor Sanjay Sharma and his crew.
–By Troy Ribeiro
