Here is a Priyadarshan film that doesn't resort to slapstick or senselessness. Yet one can't say it's a pleasant change. That's because the narrative is exasperatingly protracted and keeps beating around the bush.
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Priyadarshan seems to have directed the film on a village vacation where he forgot to call a cut after every sequence and the scenes keep extending endlessly. What's more annoying is that Neeraj Vora's dialogues and screenplay keep repeating and reinstating the obvious.
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Initially there is a boring buildup to Shreyas's lame love story. One expects the graph to go up with Nana Patekar's entry but the actor is barely given any lines to mouth.
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Priyadarshan is no Bhansali to gain out of Nana Patekar's Khamoshi. And Nana is not just a man of few words, he doesn't even respond to people around him in the film (as if his remuneration was reduced at the last moment). And everyone else in the film screams as if they have an inbuilt loudspeaker in their vocal chords. Thereby the only thing that the film communicates to the viewer is frustration.
And after stretching the narrative for almost three hours when film opens up the suspense it had reserved for the succeeding reels, it fails to register, for one has lost patience and interest.
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