Missing

This psychological thriller, aptly propped by heavy duty actors Tabu and Manoj Bajpayee for most part keeps you interested. It lives up to its tag, keeping the suspense up till the last two two-three shots and playing constant mind games, which means the viewers are understandably perplexed about who is the psycho in the film.

Tabu, as usual, is brilliant as the mother of a three-year-old girl called Titli who is kidnapped from her resort room in Mauritius and there is no trace of her being anywhere. In fact, all through the film, we do not get to see the face of the little Titli.

Director Mukul Abhyankar does a good and interesting build-up in this thriller which has everything going. Bajpayee, as an edgy philanderer, is, however, a wee bit over-stretched in trying to be histrionically brilliant as just another middle class man bored with his married life and indulging in tasteless but relentless “harmless flirting” while his pregnant wife tends to his four-year-old son.

Annu Kapoor as the top cop on the case is over-cooked and much too theatrical for the role and his exaggerated gestures sometimes gets to you. However, the film is an under-publicised good mount which plays on your curiousities till the very end and throws up an interesting climax. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 8 April, 2018