A foul-mouthed girl
minding her own business of leading a drug-racket in Delhi-NCR! An abductor
with a heart ever ready to sing love-songs! And they bond over fascinating crime-stories
during their break away from the cops. We don’t see an odd couple like them
very often in Bollywood, especially with the character Richa Chaddha plays in
the film but that’s that and no meat to seize your teeth in, in its paper-thin
plot.
Visually directed by
Navneet Behal [Yeah, that’s how he chooses to put his name in the credits; probably
because of the row over creative differences with the other Creative Director
Suryaveer Singh Bhullar], TAMANCHEY has all the ingredients of a
masala-entertainer but miserably wrong in their proposed measures. Result? A tasteless
comedy, cold as corpse drama, rough & bumpy action sequences and absolutely
watery performances!
Munna with an
eastern UP dialect [Nikhil Dwivedi] meets Babu [Richa Chaddha] from Delhi. The guy
is in the business of kidnapping capitalists and the girl is an independent
drug-dealer from the ‘Capitol’. On the run, they fall in love and that is the
least thing Rana- a Haryanvi don who owns the girl [Played by Debutante Damandeep
Sidhu] would approve. What follows next is hardly inventive or original unless
you meet the climax. Hear this out because I know many would give this film a
miss. The murderous couple in love is surrounded by cops in an abandoned building
and in cloudy moments of despair, they decide to play ‘husbands-wives’ game everyone
must have in their childhood. Trying hard to make you cry, to make you feel for
the characters but it’s too late. The bullets have gone backfire and there is
just a plain smoke left for you to succumb in suffocation and depression.
Leave the
characterization alone as that’s the only part I think the makers had worked
on, and everything else is so flat as burst tyres. The screenplay barely induces
any spark of excitement in you. You are left with some funny dialogues, to be précised
one or two sequences to rely your urge of watching something substantial and
Richa Chaddha who’s directed more to show off her physical curves and cleavages
than her confident in the role. She’s been perfectly cast as a blunt, sharp and
gutsy girl who can land herself comfortably in any panicky situation. Though
this would not be considered amongst her best of works, she’s the only flicker of
relief. Nikhil Dwivedi doesn’t hesitate to put his best efforts but sadly that
never turns into a visible result. Damandeep Sidhu is an identified name in
theater-world in Delhi and no doubt this role has lots in terms of the length and
the time spent on screen but I wish he could use more flares of his acting
skills to his one-dimensional villainous act.
Overall, TAMANCHEY
as it sounds is a gunshot loaded full of smoke and big bang but misses its
target by large margin. And who would want that? Especially when we have the
all flashy and stylized firearms in muscular hands of Greek God ruling over box-office
[read: BANG BANG] and the brother-turns rival-to another with Kalashnikov shooting
off fire of hatred and revenge to win critical acclaim from allover [read:
HAIDER] still running in theatres. Don’t make this an option! [1.5/5]
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