ROY Review
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Rampal & Jaqueline Fernandez Director: Vikramjit Singh Producer: Bhushan Kumar, Freeway Pictures
Two pertinent questions came to mind while watching ROY- what & why?
Despite my best efforts, they kept niggling & knocking inside my head all throughout the film. In retrospect, they helped in staying awake during this snooze inducing, confused film.
ROY employs dual narration to tell 2 parallel stories. One is, of a franchise filmmaker battling writes bloc & having a dalliance with an alternate female filmmaker (Arjun Rampal as Kabir & Jaqueline Fernandez as Aisha). The second is of an ace thief who (very slowly) falls in love with a millionaire painter/ socialite (Played by Ranbir Kapoor as ROY & Jaqueline Fernandez as Tia) while smoothly going about his business. Roy’s stellar stealth skills are core to the plot of Kabir’s third film that also weaves in Aisha’s real self and patches in a romance between the thief & rather unquestioning Tia. Their personas begin to reflect each other. Confused? Wait, there’s more. Add to the mix, a lame cop (lamentable role for Rajat Kapoor), a doting dad (Anupam Kher) & a supportive manager (Shernaz Patel) walking in & out of Kabir’s life, even as he makes a massive film and continues to brood over his Work in Progress, one true love. Dazed AND
Confused?