TAMANCHEY: Miss it, as it misses the target for the most! [1.5/5]

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]