Contract Movie Review
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Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Cast: Adhvik Mahajan, Sakshi Gulati, Prasad Purandare
Satya - an inside view of underworld
Company - an overview of underworld
Contract - No viewpoint on underworld
That precisely summarizes Ram Gopal Varma’s third installment on the underworld trilogy.
Rather than a story detailing the intricacies of the underworld operations like the earlier two episodes boasted of, what RGV actually attempts here is revisiting the classic Don (as if Sholay wasn’t enough) with the story of a man infiltrating the gangland while adding his regular ruffled ruffian characters.
ACP Ahmad Hussain (Prasad Purandare) asks ex-military commando Aman (Adhvik Mahajan) to work as an informer in an underworld gang and tip him with lethal information.
Aman refuses and ‘coincidentally’ loses his wife and kid in a terrorist attack soon after, which makes him change his mind. That’s the most conventional character conflict employed since years!!!
What follows are ingredients common to any underworld drama. Two gangs. One gang-lord, gang-war, encounter specialist, police commissioner, corrupt home minister, so on and so forth.
In surplus you also have a gangster’s sister who is impressed by our hero’s attitude of mouthing a dialogue in every line.
You don’t expect a line like, “Kya tumne kabhi kisi se pyaar kiya hai?” in an RGV film but Ramu just does that and serves you the unexpected. That gives way for the obligatory love story.
The heroine (Sakshi Gulati) can’t act but she sure is alluring. Alas Ramu doesn’t even exploit her oomph by making her sizzle on Bangkok beaches.
‘Its not needed’ you might argue but so is their redundant romance track that’s completely incompatible in this crime caper.
The riveting and realistic effect of RGV’s earlier underworld films is conspicuously missing from Contract. That’s perhaps because the scripting by Prashant Pandey comes without any research or references.
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