Movie Review: Agent Vinod (2012) ***Rating

∞ Tumhara Naam Kya Hai ? ∞

Theatre Release: 23 Mar 2012

Language: Hindi

Direction: Sriram Raghavan

Label: Illuminati Pictures

Genre: Thriller

Viewers Group: 15+

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 AVA Score: 7 (Max 10)

AVA Medal Honor™©      : ȫ Silver

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So with the Agent Vinod here comes the desi  jasoos  wrapped in english suits ,jumping from heights, performing path breaking actions, some nice latkas n jhatkas and very important & its hidden …very secret …cannot be identified …The Story, Screenplay & Editing J No Lollz but Pain Why? Please Read

Agent Vinod starts up very nicely and scores full marks for its start and the end but what seems missing the connection of individual events to reach the grand finale. The Story began with the escape of RAW Agent Vinod from the terrorist groups in Afghanistan and the murder of its counter Part. The only clue to find the team behind this murder is the code ‘242’. The hunt for 242 involves searching and hunting a series of terrorists and top shots criminal living in the society with hidden intentions. And when everyone thought that the story ended was actually the story started but by that time it’s the EXIT red light ask you to leave the theatres asking you ‘Tumhara Naam Kya Hai?’

Sriram Raghavan well known and appreciated for movies like ‘Ek Haseena Thi’ and ‘Johny Gaddar’ tried to his full capacity to make one of the sleekest, stylist and adventurous Spy Thriller and may be its his vision and capability that actually make this watchable despite the story is full of independent frames where connection in viewers mind seems hard to connect. For e.g.

Appearance of Maryam Zakaria – God knows if Kareena asked her hubby to cut down her role. There was no  connect how she was there in Afghan and how come she appeared to do a sensuous mujra in Pakistan and then flew away from the screen

Despite SPY , Agent Vinod only comes in different dresses to disguise which even a child can recognize . You must have seen FAKE GOLD WIN programs across major and even respected Prime  channels late night where they keep you phone on hold and when everyone knew that Aishwarya is on the screen their Fake callers said its Bipasha, Rakhi Swant or some may  refer to Madhubala and your bill went in thousands..it was a situation like that

The Character of Kareena is completely dubious including her death , may be director/producers has some planned for the sequels. But as for this release even the character of Dr Iram Parveen Bilal/Dr.Tanya Ruby got removed nothing would affect the original story.

Well I can’t say how many of you are aware of the spine chilling class documentary ‘Wake Up Call’ but as far as the work of Sriram Raghavan I had understood the original idea of the director was exactly same but what really pains here that the commercialization and inferences of personal production house had actually spoiled a world class script which got revealed in ashes only in the end. The Story team and Editors could have made the script entertaining and engaging even without diluting the original Idea of real faces behind the Actual terrorism.

I would not like to discuss here about music, mujras and performances but Nawab Sahab. The intention was good, efforts were nice; had you thought about the Story and Director No one would have asked you –“Tumhara Naam Kya Hai”?

Thanks & Regards

Yours AVA

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