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Cuttputlli movie review: Akshay Kumar heads an unwanted, uninspiring remake of Ratsasan
What: Cuttputlli – Disney + Hotstar’s favorite Akshay Kumar is seen dobaara in an unwanted, uninspiring remake of the gripping 2018 Vishnu Vishal starrer – Ratsasan (Demon).
OTT movie Cuttputlli synopsis
In Parwanoo, a small town in Himachal Pradesh, in a shocking incident a teenage schoolgirl’s horribly mutilated body is found on a bench.
While in the neighborhood Kausauli a girl of similar age goes missing and after two days her dead body is found hanging under a bridge in the same mutilated condition wrapped in a plastic.
The killer has left a doll of Cinderella – exactly brutalized in the same condition as the victim as his token/signature.
A serial killer is on the prowl and an aspiring filmmaker Arjan Sethi (Akshay Kumar) who has done research on psychopath criminals/serial killers on repeated rejection from film producers/financers, joins the police force to fill the seat reserved for the family member of the deceased police ( Arjan’s father).
Arjan’s father has died on duty and Arjan’s sister Seema (Hrishitaa Bhatt) has married a police officer played by Chandrachur Singh. Arjan’s sister stays in Kausauli.
How will the aspiring filmmaker help in solving a real case of a serial killer?
Not even a month has passed for the irritating disaster called Raksha Bandhan and AkshayKumar is back on silver screen. So what if it’s the small screen. Kamaiye honi chahiye. Audience ki bhalai ki kiss ko padi hai.
No issue in coming again and again but for that there is a feeling called once more.. but in the case of Akshay Kumar and such Bollywood remakes it’s the feeling of no more no more..
Starting with the name and its spelling why a title like Cuttputlli (read closely it means cutting eyelids – that’s gory) in the remake to a title like Ratsasan (Demon). The gouged-out eyes of Cinderella doll inspired from (Brothers Grimm fairy tale).
The revelation of the torture during the autopsy report gives you chills whenhe doctor says the victim was kept alive to feel the maximum pain.
But soon after that the tension evaporates and we are made to suffer an interesting modus operandi – police procedure which minimizes the thrill, spine chilling moments required from such a crime thriller based on a serial killer.
Director Ranjit M. Tewari and writer Aseem Arora just do a routine job that could have been done by any student of any filmmaking school.
The tension between the victim and the killer is missing.
The cat and mouse between the police and the killer lacks thrills and punch line or punches.
Things are deliberate, an example of to your face filmmaking with scenes hard to digest like the mathematics teacher (Sujith Shankar) molestation of teenage girls in the school class room itself. While the school is open and a function is taking place in the hall.
The romantic angle between Rakul Preet Singh and Akshay Kumar so thanda and unnecessary.
In fact, the remake is just a factory product, unnecessary and unwanted with no interest to add any new nuances and give its own identity.
AkshayKumar is the same routine, nothing to talk about and is another important weak link. Akshay Kumar lacks innocence, simplicity and timidness of Vishnu Vishal in the original.
Rakul Preet Singh has nothing much to do than look gorgeous and she does.
Its Sargun Mehta as the no-nonsense SHO Parmer who has some meat in her role. Same for Sujith Shankar to an extent. Chandrachur Singh is wasted. Hrishitaa Bhatt is okay. Seher Bhowmik is fine. Joshua Leclai is good. Gurpreet Ghuggi is wasted.
Akshay Kumar – the Hindi audience is not your Kathputtli. Bachchhan Paandey, Samrat Prithviraj, Raksha Bandhan and now Cuttputlli (fourth disaster in a row).
There was a time when people used to say – once more… now it’s turning to be no more… what else can you say about this unwanted, uninspiring remake of Ratsasan and the attitude of some Bollywood filmmakers and actors who just don,t want to change.
A child born from life & fed by cinema. A filmi keeda from child & a film journalist for the last fifteen years. a father, seeker, foodie who loves crooning bollywood melodies twitter.com/cineblues More By vishal verma