One Night Stand: Leone’s film out-an-out

Cast : Sunny leone, Tanuj Virvani, Nyra Banerjee, Narendra Jetley, Khalid Siddiqui

Rated: 5.5/10

You would have thought this one to be the same old Sunny Leone type of caper  mostly between the sheets, high on testosterone and low on an actual story. The director, for what’s it worth, thankfully gets over the bedroom romps  in this case romps in the kitchen, in the bath tub and then in the bed  pretty early in the film to get on with the actual story of an obsessive lover who goes crazy after a one-night stand with Leone in Thailand.

The film is not all that un-happening. Leone, for one, after the bedroom scenes, looks great and also manages to act. That her personality is untenable and unbelievable is not her fault. I mean, come on guys, which perfect wife, mom and daughter-in-law with a very righteous chip of family responsibility on her shoulder, would actually go in for a one-night stand with a stranger, that too without any provocation or situation back home?

Yes, the man was what boys always are  humping around with a dutiful Nigella Lawson kind of cooking wonder back home who never asks questions, shows dissent or is even open to seeing what her philanderer husband is up to.

Caught between these two worlds, the film ambles along though by the end, it hurtles into an unexplained climax in which neither Leone nor her beau nor the beau’s wife have much of a role to play.

It could have been a much better film had the story been more rounded and the songs a bit more hummable. However, it’s Leone’s film through and through (despite that irritating accent which she fights hard to tackle) though the man is at the centre of this film dealing with an OCD.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 08 May, 2016