'Blackmail' review: Complex, snail-paced yet entertaining black comedy
Blackmail' review: Complex, snail-paced yet entertaining black comedy on Business Standard. Irrfan Khan, Arunoday Singh triumph in this game of Blackmail
Latest News Designed as an edgy, noir drama, "Blackmail" uses relentless ingenuity to dig its hero into deeper and deeper holes - until finally, when he seems defeated by the weight of his problems, it's equally ingenious in digging him out again. This is one of those plots where one thing leads to another - although it has an entirely different tone because the hero is a completely ordinary man, we begin to care about. After seven years of their marriage, Dev Kaushal is a bored-to-death husband who spends much of his time in office. One day on the suggestion, from one of his close colleagues - Anand Tripathi, he lands up home to surprise his wife Reena. But instead, he is surprised by her infidelity. She is in bed with her boyfriend, Rajit Arora. Dev, despite imagining himself flying into a rage against the two of them, prefers to being a timid cuckold. He walks off from his home dejectedly, only to return later. The next day before leaving for office when his wife asks him to pay some essential bills, he hits upon an idea to blackmail his wife's lover. This sets the ball rolling to a series of Blackmail Review that catapults
this serious drama to an intentional comedy, both situational and slapstick. Writer Parveez Sheikh is merciless in creating one difficulty after another for his characters who are eventually shown as mercenaries. Every character is well-written and each one of them have a set of problems and there are long, sustained sequences in which every actor does his or her best.
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