UT 69 movie review: Raj Kundra-starrer is just one long litany of woes – The Indian Express
Undertrial 69 aka UT 69 is the risque label handed out to beleaguered billionaire Raj Kundra enjoying himself, in a movie primarily based on the latest occasions in his life. Confused? Don’t be. If the central function within the bio-pic might be performed by the one that it’s primarily based on, and that individual occurs to be an actor (a element you possibly can collect from his Wiki web page), effectively, why not?
The difficulty with this two-hour-long story is that as a substitute of digging into particulars of the accusation—producing pornographic materials– that lands Kundra in Mumbai’s Arthur Jail, the place he has to remain for 63 days with out bail, is that it is only one lengthy litany of woes. From the time the clean-cut Kundra enters a big, empty quarantine cell the place he’s the one inmate, to an inhumanly crowded pen the place a whole lot of undertrials are pressured to stay in horrible, unsanitary, unhygienic situations, and undergoes every thing in between– filthy bathrooms, barely edible meals, regimented days and nights—all we see is the despair and moroseness which besets our man.
The one break he will get is the occasional telephone name to his spouse, the actor Shilpa Shetty who’s current as a disembodied voice on the telephone, or swaying seductively on the TV display screen. That’s when he breaks right into a smile. That, and the uncommon likelihood when the undertrials are ‘allowed’ to rejoice (Ganapati time) once they can sing and dance, or the sequences once they swap life tales, or the nice and cozy second when a birthday is widely known with a makeshift ‘sonpapdi’ cake.
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In the end, there’s nothing new in any of it, apart from the truth that regardless of the griminess and the grimness, all of it seems fairly sanitised, the coarse brutality and the sexual exploitation barely hinted at.
The one shock is that Kundra himself seems fairly relaxed on display screen. Maybe he does have a future within the films.
UT 69 film solid: Raj Kundra
UT 69 film director: Shanawaz Ali
UT 69 film score: One and a half stars
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