Roy — Nothing exceptional about it!
The ‘film within a film’ format has been used many times in the past, with varying degrees of success. Vikramjit Singh’s debut movie Roy is another one in the long list, but one that could have been done a lot better.
Kabir Grewal (played by Arjun Rampal) is the director of a successful film franchisee based on the exploits of a stylish thief, based in Malaysia.
He goes there to shoot the final film in the trilogy and meets a London based film-maker Ayesha Aamir (Jacqueline Fernandez). They fall in love and then break up, sending him into depression.
Roy (Ranbir Kapoor) plays a suave thief, who is out to steal a valuable painting. The way their lives intertwine forms the rest of the story.
The director manages to keep the audience interested in places. But his overenthusiasm to make all things nice comes at the expense of the story line.
The cinematography is excellent and the chemistry between Rampal and Fernandez is unmistakable. But Kapoor comes across as a bit awkward. And like all Bollywood movies, everything comes to a happy end. And you leave the theatre feeling the film did not do its own potential full justice.
VERDICT: Time pass movie. Great visuals and leading pair, weak plot. Six out of 10 stars.
haa...its waste film..
That's good news. keep it up.
Hello Hi_tech, yes, there've been other movies, but I started doing reviews only quite recently (a month ago). That's why you don't see reviews of movies that did well overseas (PK, for example). I'll be covering movies regularly now, Hindi movies will be among them for sure.
Nice to see the the bollywood movie review first time on QL but you choose the wrong movie. There are hundreds which has done great box office collection overseas. It sounds like a review by non-hindi guy.
Yawn, cinematography alone does not carry a film. Indeed.