Noor: Slim Sonakshi, slimmer film

Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Kanan Gill, Shibani Dandekar, Purab Kohli, Sunny Leone

Rated: 5/10

So what’s the one and only guiding light of this film? Well, it is Sonakshi Sinha without her weight. She looks slim in knickers, is entirely bubbly, the nude make-up adds to her screen presence and she does act too.

But other than that, there is nothing real or arresting about this loosely stitched up film, the high point of which is the arresting monologue of “Mumbai You Are Killing Me”. Sadly though, it comes right at the end and much after the movie has proved itself as a blind bumbler in ample measure.

Coming back to Sonakshi, she looks slim and trim — and beautiful too as Noor, a young broadcast journo full of serious human interest stories no one is interested in. Her Bridget Jones persona is becoming if nothing else. But, the portrayal of journalists and journalism is skewed from the word go and much of the film is around the media.

However, nothing of the sort that Noor faces commonly happens in the real

media. Even if you are not a journalist watching the film, you will find it coming to you with too many loose ends, a story that keeps straying from its path, sequences that begin but don’t end and events that don’t stitch up, when, that is, they are not entirely unnecessary.

For Sonakshi to have helmed such a weak story is laudable because she does it with a lot of gumption. Other than that there is nothing that can be breaking news in this rather confused and unstructured report.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 23 April, 2017