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One Day: Justice Delivered Film Review - Super unbelievable

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00:00Is this a circus?

00:01Isha Gupta, who plays a fierce cop in the thriller One Day Justice Delivered,

00:06asks her male colleague after she exits her prison cell after pummeling a guy brutally.

00:12That's one thought that enters our mind as an audience when we watch this thriller

00:17starring Anupam Kher and Gupta, who's terribly miscast in this film.

00:21We have Anupam Kher who plays the role of Justice Tyagi who goes rogue when he realises

00:31that he has not been successful in sentencing criminals through his career.

00:36So he decides to turn into a superman where he turns into a vigilante who commits a series

00:42of kidnappings across the city.

00:44Is it bizarre?

00:45Yes, it is.

00:46And is the pace languid?

00:47Yes, it is.

00:48Anupam Kher plays this very unassuming, gracious judge who feels he's not been very successful

00:54at putting criminals behind bars.

00:56So what does he do after retirement?

00:58He makes a living then by committing a series of kidnappings and trying to torture them

01:02to give out a confession of sorts through brutal methods.

01:07Police brutality is glorified in this film and absolutely there's no case of retribution

01:12to any of the players in this film.

01:15Anupam Kher, who plays such a soft-spoken, unassuming character suddenly becomes this

01:19superman.

01:20Is it convincing?

01:21Not so much.

01:22One of the main problems that I have with the movie is the casting of Isha Gupta.

01:27I think she's beautiful and she dances like a dream.

01:30But the problem here is she's not very convincing as a fierce cop.

01:34The moment she starts breaking into a dialect in Hindi, it just seems so wrong.

01:40In fact, she just does not have the talent to convince us otherwise that she's not just

01:45all about glamour.

01:46In fact, her introductory scene is her playing a seductress at a nightclub in Kolkata.

01:52We're told it's an undercover operation and she's there to nab a criminal.

01:57But I have a feeling that the director had in mind was to commercialize this movie by

02:01showcasing her beautiful, bodacious body and also gyrating her hips.

02:06It just did not make much sense to have a police officer who's out to clean the grime

02:12in the city and crime in the city suddenly break out into a song and dance.

02:16It wasn't very convincing at all.

02:18And also the director, Ashok Nanda, has this propensity to add titillating numbers into

02:23the mix.

02:24It's supposedly a dark, taut thriller about a judge turning into a vigilante who has this

02:31ambition of cleaning the city of criminals.

02:33He feels as if he was inefficient as a judge and therefore tries to make up by orchestrating

02:39a series of unlawful activities.

02:42In terms of performances, it's only Kher and Kumud Mishra.

02:45He's a seasoned actor who plays Isha Gupta's colleague who's convincing.

02:51Those are the two saving graces in this otherwise insipid film.

02:55In fact, how does Anupam Kher gallivant around kidnapping people without any help or how

03:01does nobody notice this family man turn into a superman is something that remains a mystery.

03:07As far as the verdict goes for this movie, it's not so favourable.

03:11I've gone with 2 out of 5.

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