REVIEW: COLLAR BONE

Producers-Vkarama Mejara and Siddharth Anand Kumar

Director-Dyanesh Zoting

Star Cast- Jimmy Shergill, Asha Negi, Rajshri Deshpande, Sparsh Srivastav and Naman Jain

Genre- Thriller

OTT Platform- Disney Plus Hotstar

Lacks logic!

Rating-**

Jyothi Venkatesh

The film begins with a tiring and dreary monologue commentary about Muhammad Bin Tughlaq who was the sultan of Delhi who causes a lot of loss of lives while shifting his capital twice and it immediately sets the tone for Dnyanesh Zoting’s thriller for Disney+ Hotstar.

The movie sets out to explore misunderstandings and deception through the prism of yet another prime subject of a hostage crisis.

To sum up, Collar Bone is a thriller produced by Yoodlee Films and 3 Earth Entertainment

The hill station Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh is mourning the death of a child from the local community when a bomb-laden 21 year old young boy enters a memorial meeting at her school.

Looking like a pucca Jihadi, the boy Shoaib Ali ( Sparsh Srivastav) reads out a religious quote easily identifiable with Islam and issues instructions to one of the men present in the hall, Manoj Kumar Hesi (Jimmy Sheirgill), a respected top cop is present in the venue with his young son Akshay (Naman Jain) .

You soon realize as the film progresses that Manoj Kumar Hesi must execute certain tasks to prevent the explosive from going off.

In what can be termed as an exasperating screenplay full of several characters as well as loopholes, a Muslim businessman is targeted for having earlier employed the boy who has now taken hostages at the school, and while Manoj Hesi races around town, his colleague ASI Sumitra Joshi (Asha Negi) , who suspects that he is hands in glove with the assassins, is hot on his heels while a voice on the phone becomes a link to the past.

Jimmy Shergill fails to bring out the facets of his complex role with aplomb and does his role without showing any sort of conviction.

Asha Negi, though wasted once again in a role as ASI Sumitra, which does not give her much scope plays her role as the duty-bound police officer without any iota of doubt.

Rajshri Deshpande, who plays a deglamorized school teacher singing a famous Marathi lullaby that provides the first clue that something, is not quite right impresses with her role in the film, unlike in her earlier OTT outing where she had daringly bared her body boldly with Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the OTT series The Sacred Games

The lack of a back story to his character makes it difficult for the viewer to connect with Sparsh Srivastav who plays Shoaib Ali the guy who interrupts the meeting with a collar bomb as he has nothing else to do other than threaten the kids and scare them with his collar bomb.

The film is yet another film on terrorism which fails to appeal to the viewers and what mars the film is the dismal and lackluster plot which lacks logic and inept direction by Dyanesh Zoting and it is a big relief that it has a running time of just about an hour and twenty six minutes in all