Movie Review: Nakshatra (2010)

Nakshatra - ‘Nakshatra’ lacks good script and this is just one of the major flaws of the movie

Starring: Anupam Kher, Milind Soman, Shubh, Sabina Sheema
Direction: Mohan Savalkar
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Readers Rating: 1.5 (one out of five)
There’s a bit of romance juggled with a bit of action here to create a run-of-the-mill thriller which takes so much time to rev up, it leaves you restless. More importantly, there seems to be some confusion about what our young hero (Shubh) actually wants to be. Does he want to be a gamer, excelling in playstation antics or does he aspire to be a new age Salim-Javed, writing bestselling scripts for blockbuster films? We’re as confused as the laddie’s lost lady (Sabina Sheema) who tries hard to lure him away from the game console. And when he does, he ends up with strange producers who keep paying him money for a film that never hits the floors.
Flummoxed? Yes. So are we. The film perks up only in the action cuts when Milind Soman leaps and bounds across the screen in hot pursuit of the necklace chor. But that’s not enough to keep up the momentum in a film that’s in desperate need of editing and punch. Also, what’s Anupam Kher doing in a two-bit role that doesn’t justify his presence in any way.