The highlight of 7 Khoon Maaf is the song ‘Darling’. The rest of the film is a disappointment. 7 Khoon Maaf is everything you would not associate the maker of engaging movies like Omkara, Maqbool, Kaminey with. Vishal Bhardwaj has created a very uninspiring, rather boring and a definitely loosely packaged movie this time.
The movie is based on the short story by Ruskin Bond, Sussana’s Seven Husbands, a thrilling black comedy. However, the inspired piece is predictable, devoid of thrilling moments and is far from funny. What is a pity is that the potential of the subject is underutilized to an extent that it renders the movie unimaginative. It seemed like a story that didn’t wait to be developed but was delivered in a hurry without weaving the 7 stories into a single one. It failed to bring out the horror or the trauma of an effected mind, or the emotional build of the girl who marries wrong seven times and ends up killing her husbands in order to get out of the bad marriage. Even brilliant actors like Priyanka Chopra, Naseerudin Shah, Konakana Sen Sharma were poorly presented and suffered the whiplash of erratic story telling.
If there is one word I could use to describe this movie, it would be ‘patchy’. From the make up to the acting, to the story telling, if there is one common element, it was the fact that they consistently remained patchy. Neil Nitin Mukesh however deserves a mention for the playing his role, albeit small as Susanna’s first husband with great charm.
No revelations, no surprises, poor storytelling and a patchy delivery turns this movie into a long boring watch and leaves us with no empathy for any of its characters. No Maafi for Vishal Bharadwaj for this movie!
Rating : 3/10
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