| Contract Movie
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Music :
Amar Mohile, Bapi - Tutul, Sana Kotwal |
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Lyrics :
Prashant Pandey, Mehboob |
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Direction : Ram Gopal Varma |
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Producer :
Sanjeev
K. Bijli, Ajay Bijli, Praveen Nischol |
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Leading Cast :
Sakshi
Gulati, Vineet Sharma, Sadia Siddiqui, Amruta Khanvilkar, |
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Prasad
Purandare, Saurabh Mahajan, Adhvik Mahajan, Zakir Hussain |
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Ram Gopal Varma’s underworld-meets-terrorism flick
Contract is strictly is a timepass movie about a man
on a mission to kill a dreaded terrorist.
If you expect some serious insight into the nexus
between the Mumbai underworld and the terror
network, let me state at the outset that you would
be disappointed by ‘Contract’. At large, the film is
a vendetta tale of an ex-army commando who
infiltrates the underworld to get to the top
terrorist responsible for the attacks that killed
his wife and daughter. |
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At the center of the story is Aman Malik ( Adhvik
Mahajan ) who is approached by a coffee-guzzling
Mumbai cop for a special mission to nail the
terrorists after a series of terror blasts in Delhi.
Aman turns down the offer but has a rude awakening
after his own wife and daughter is killed in another
terror attack in Mumbai.
Devastated but vengeful, he agrees to the cop’s
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mission, assumes new identity as Amaan Ali Yusuf,
and joins one of the two rival gangs as a first step to get
to the neck of the top terrorist, Sultan.
On this mission, Aman has to shed a lot of blood, and bump
off many people before he gets to his wanted man. |
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Honestly speaking, there has been an overkill of
underworld films from Ram Gopal Varma . Satya and Company
came at a time when the subject wasn’t much explored in
Bollywood and Varma’s realistic and hard-hitting (at times
even shocking) treatment of the subject caught the viewers’
fancy. But now, everyone’s seen that and done over with.
Still, Varma keeps treading the beaten track and makes an
utterly forgettable film like ‘Contract’. |
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The movie is full of all the trappings of a usual
RGV gangster drama. It has shabby-looking,
trigger-happy criminals and inside informants
engaged in a war between rival gangs. It has a
protagonist who utters a wisecrack whenever he opens
his mouth, and leaves a trail of blood whenever
attacked by rivals. It has a leading lady ( Sakshi
Gulati ) who falls for the gun-wielding hero and
accompanies him to some of his missions. |
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Technically, the film has a raw and rugged look with the
camera lingering mostly on the close-ups of the actors. The
background music is so loud at times that it almost screams
how viewers ought to feel in a particular scene. The songs
are forgettable.
Speaking of performances, newcomer Adhvik Mahajan has a
notable screen presence. Though he doesn’t deliver anything
truly outstanding, there is no trace of hamming in his
acting, which is quite a feat for any newcomer. Sakshi
Gulati’s role doesn’t have much meat, but she performs well.
As rival gangsters Upendra Limaye and Sumeet Nijhawan are
brilliant. Upendra is particularly very spontaneous.
In a nutshell, ‘Contract’ is a timepass film at best. |
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Rating: 2/5 |
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