Movie Review Rating for Apurva: 1.5/5
Starring: Aaditya Gupta, Dhairya Karwa, Sumit Gulati, Rajpal Yadav, Tara Sutaria, and Abhishek Banerjee
Nikhil Nagesh Bhat, director
What’s Good: It lasts for ninety minutes! There won’t be much regret over squandering time.
What’s Bad: Your 90 minutes are still wasted, though
Loo Break: Only if you can stay in one place for ninety minutes while chaos is certain to ensue.
Watch or Not: It would be more productive to forgo it, save your ninety minutes, and use it to do nothing.
Spoken in Hindi
Accessible through Disney+Hotstar
Duration: One and a half hours
A group of local goons are shown looting a car for the most basic reason while traveling from Chambal to Agra, and the reason is revealed with such a long-a** build-up that you don’t even care. The reason it’s NH44 (likely because the route is Chambal to Jhansi) and you keep getting people who might beat you to death only to loot your valuables is because the goons are Sukhi (Abhishek Banerjee), Jugnu (Rajpal Yadav), Balli (Sumit Gulati), and Chhota (Aaditya Gupta).
When a bus driver refuses to give them the way to pass, they overtake it to kill him and his companion on their way home after the loot. Then what? abduct a stunning girl from the passengers, attempt to ruthlessly abuse her, and ultimately meet your demise at the hands of her. That concludes the tale.
For your information, the girl is Apurva (Tara Sutaria), and she is going to Agra to surprise her boyfriend Sid (Dhairya Karwa). She has saved the name of Sid as “Sid Poochie” on her phone, complete with two hearts and a “face-blowing kiss” emoji. I am aware that the information is superfluous, but that is precisely the focus of the movie—information needed to create a compelling story.
Review of the film Apurva: A Script Analysis
The highly anticipated film “Kill” directed by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat is a story you can tell in a single breath without making anyone feel excited. Okay, give it a go. The narrative describes how four thugs abduct a girl from a bus, abuse her, and then, because they are idiots, kill each of them one by one. Were you intrigued enough to follow the outcome? If so, you should wait to see what happens to wrap up this story that is guaranteed to make you laugh.
The brutality with which the goons break the girl they kidnap determines how surprising the story is, and none of their tricks are new enough to make you feel anything. This only serves to highlight the need for more deference towards films such as Anushka Sharma’s NH10. Anshuman Mahaley’s cinematography, which blindly revolves around the script’s formulaic treatment, is nothing particularly noteworthy.
Apurva Movie Review: Standout Actors
Sadly, Tara Sutaria’s opportunity to act beyond her role as a flowerpot comes in the wrong movie. It’s simply better than her previous performances, which isn’t a standard to match even for her, so this in no way indicates that she has arrived.
I said to myself, “Yes!” at the first glimpse of Rajpal Yadav. He’s finally not doing comedy, so this should be interesting. But with each new scene, I thought to myself, “Why is he not doing comedy?” The fact that Abhishek Banerjee is doing this following the horrific events of Hathoda Tyagi is reminiscent of Robert Downey Jr.’s Dolittle role following Avengers: Endgame.
In this disjointed crime-drama script, Aaditya Gupta and Sumit Gulati, the other two dacoits, are given equal importance to the “mystery.” In the movie, Dhairya Karwa appears only at the very end, when his girlfriend Tara kills everyone and exclaims, “Main aa gaya hoon!”
Direction and Music in the Film Apurva
When writing and directing this, Nikhil Nagesh Bhat adopts a very simple style. Because everything screams generic AF, it is obvious that the story was written with little thought. Nothing positive comes out of the deliberate chaos on screen because everything is so predictable all the time.
The music by Vishal Mishra only lengthens the show. Although these songs are good on their own, their inclusion in the movie serves no purpose. Also typical is the BGM.
Review of the film Apurva: Final Verdict
Once everything is considered, this only lasts for about 90 minutes, and there are a hundred reasons, in my opinion, to watch NH10.
