Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga Review: Yami Gautam And Sunny Kaushal Starrer Netflix Film Trips Over Its Own Smartness

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Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga Review: Yami Gautam And Sunny Kaushal Starrer Netflix Film Trips Over Its Own Smartness
Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga is like one extended gag gone too far. The writers(Siraj Ahmed, Amar Kaushik, and  Raj Kumar  Gupta) must have brainstormed in pursuit of a sizzling-hot heist caper/hijack drama mixing Guy Ritchie with Neerja. The  cock(and bull)tail  is  anything  but heady, heading as it does from a  stab at  the adage “Do not  stretch your legs  beyond the size of  the  blanket ” to  “Hell hatch no fury like a woman scorned.”  It ends up  as a brackish brew of  Ek Haseena Thi and  Neerja, lacking the high-speed dark suspense of the former and the heart-stopping hijack plot of the latter.

Neha Grover (Yami Gautam  Dhar) meets Ankit Sethi(Sunny Kaushal, deserves better) midair. She is a flight attendant and he is a demanding passenger. He wants a vegetarian meal. She gives him her own meal. Then she gives him a lot more. Soon she is pregnant while  debtors  threaten to knock down Ankit’s door. We are apprised of the romantic situation in the first fifteen minutes. The rest is a diamond heist saga  involving a corrupt politician, an imposter flight marshall  and sundry government officials including Sharad  Kelkar who looks very unhappy. Maybe he feels like a passenger who has boarded the wrong flight.



Back to Ankit and Neha, what the couple plans to do to overcome their hard times is not mentionable here,lest the suspense is spoilt. But what about the fact that the plot, going into trippy convulsions,   is hellbent on shooting itself in the leg? There is hardly any breathing space in the  narration. At one point in the hijack drama, Sunny Kaushal pretends to have an asthma attack and sneaks into the empty business class of  the plane  from the economy section, right under the hijackers’  nose.

 There is very little coherence in the storytelling.  It is more about upping the ante  than making sense. The  flashback sequences which  provide vital clues to  the present airborne  shenanigans, are  hastily dealt with, as if  the  director didn’t want any diversionary tactics to halt the  tempestuous  tempo of storytelling.

But sorry, speed  is  not  the  decisive  ingredient in a suspense thriller. Coherence is. That’s where  Chor … takes a dismaying drubbing. It  shifts the  onus of morality from one side to another  like  a game of chess where the pieces are  tampered with  before the game  begins. By the time the flight lands and the passengers head for the chaotic terminal, we are way past the urge to know what happens next. We know that whatever it is, it is just a ploy to get our attention.



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