‘Visfot’ review: A worthwhile thriller about cruel coincidences
Kookie Gulati’s Hindi film, starring Riteish Deshmukh and Fardeen Khan, is out on JioCinema.
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In Visfot, accidents are simply waiting to happen. Chance and cruel coincidence combine to breathless effect in Kookie Gulati’s official Hindi remake of the Venezuelan hit Rock, Paper, Scissors (2012).
Set in Mumbai, the movie is out on JioCinema. The moving finger has started behaving like a seismometer during a tsunami even before call taxi driver Shoeb’s path crosses with airline pilot Akash.
Dragged into the travails of his acquaintance Manya (Nachiket Purnapatre) soon after, Shoeb (Fardeen Khan) and his girlfriend Lucky (Krystle D’Souza) find themselves saddled with Akash’s son Paddy (Prithviraj Sarnaik).
The affluent Akash (Riteish Deshmukh) and his estranged wife Tara (Priya Bapat) stop their bickering long enough to try to retrieve their child. Unfortunately for all concerned, gangland queen Acid Tai (Seema Biwas) and a pair of corrupt cops are keen on prolonging the situation.
The explosion suggested by the film’s title is actually a series of minor blasts. Both Shoeb and Akash are seconds away from imploding, Akash more than Shoeb, since he is unused to the instability that awaits him.
Visfot doesn’t expand on the consequences of two economic classes and worlds colliding head-on. The rot that characterises the Caracas setting in Rock, Paper, Scissors is merely hinted at in Visfot. Perhaps the film’s director and writers Abbas Dalal...
