The culture of movie
franchises is fairly new in India, and of the few decent franchises
that do exist today, Murder 3 will go down as the film that
killed its franchise. After the great success of Murder, with
songs that played in clubs for years, and after a brilliant
performance by Prashant Narayanan in Murder 2, Vishesh Bhatt's
Murder 3 makes you hope that you never have to see another
film from this series.
The film is about a
budding fashion photographer, who is in love with a budding architect
Roshni, in South Africa, and brings her along with him to India where
they begin their life together in a fancy British home outside
Mumbai. Things start to fall apart as doubt creeps into the
relationship and Roshni decides to test Vikram's fidelity. But the
plan backfires and she goes missing. As a consequence, Vikram starts
a new romance with Nisha, a waitress. Whether Roshni comes back,
whether the mystery of her disappearance is solved, whether Vikram is
truly loyal, are the questions that the film then answers. But quite
frankly, it does so in such a drab and uninteresting manner, that you
couldn't care less whether any of them died.
Built around an
interesting premise, the film simply hovers over the complexities of
relationship, trust and unveils the story in a messy and lousy
manner. With enormous flaws in every department, the film takes a
decent plot and turns it into a boring tale that nobody wants to
hear. The casual attitude in direction reflects in the thoughtless
costumes and make-up that the characters are shown wearing as well as
in the verbose treatment where the protagonist has to say he is a
photographer for the people to know he is one. The only two
characters outside the three leads are cops whose characterisation is
hardly worked out and in a scene at the police station, an
unnecessary attempt at humour is made in the DK Bose category.
What is funny, in fact, is the unintentional humour that oozes out of
the mindless dialogues between the characters in serious scenarios.
What is least expected
from a Bhatt Production is good music, and the film doesn't even live
up to that mark. As far as voyeuristic pleasure is concerned,which
honestly is the selling point of the franchise, the film fails at
capturing the sensuality. This, coupled with below par performances
from Randeep Hooda and Sara Loren, leave you with nothing to look at.
As far as Aditi Rao Hydari is concerned, her fans are still waiting
for her to replicate the standards she set in her supporting role in
Rockstar.
In a nutshell, Murder
3 is a title that suggests the emotion one will have while
leaving the theatre, through its title. You will be so deprived of
entertainment that you will want to murder three.
Rating - 1 out of 5
Published in DNA After Hrs (Pune) on February 16, 2013
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