Dial 100 Review: Movie story and climax is not as impactful as performances
Dial 100 Movie Rating: 2.5 Stars
Just watched Dial 100 movie on Zee5 Premium. So let’s focus on the cast, release date story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Neena Gupta, Sakshi Tanwar and Nandu Madhav
Director: Rensil D’Silva
Release Date: 6th August 2021 on Zee5 Premium
Story: Senior officer Nikhil Sood (Manoj Bajpayee) arrives at his duty at the emergency control room on a rain-drenched Mumbai night. There’s a bunch of other cops on the shift. A call with his agitated wife Prerna (Sakshi Tanwar) gives a hint of a crisis at home involving their 18-year-old son Dhruv (Svar Kamble) who is caught up in something shady.
At this stage a call from a woman named Seema Palav (Neena Gupta) alters the course of the night. She starts off sounding like someone who is contemplating killing herself before she starts towing a line that chills Nikhil she is not just depressed or angry, not to kill herself but those responsible for the pain she is going through. And, she has a gun with her. Things get a little more complicated when it transpires that the caller had specifically asked for Nikhil Sood.
Nikhil realizes that he has to race against time to make sure that the world doesn’t get to know about a dark secret that might endanger the lives of his loved ones. Who is Seema Palav and why she is against Nikhil is all about this movie.
Positives
1. Excellent Performances
2. Cinematography
3. Screenplay
4. Length
Negatives
1. Music
2. Story
3. Climax
4. Direction
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I had watched the trailer of this film planned to watch on release day because trailer looks amazing and when a movie has Manoj Bajpayee in a film then I don’t miss.
On a stormy night in Mumbai, a call comes in on the Dial 100 helpline in a police station, where a night-shift-as-usual is underway. The caller is a woman on the verge of full-blown hysteria, threatening to do something drastic and the cop who fields the call is already tense, dealing with a teary wife and a young son who’s gone and done something he had sworn off. Right from the first we sense there’s something off with the call and the woman making it. Of course, there’s much more to it, and that’s the whole point. We settle down to a racy pacy tale.
Film commenced on thrilling note and keep you engaged in first hour but 2nd half and especially climax is not upto the mark as it does impact like the performances. Story could have been tighter and same for direction as well. Overall, Dial 100 is a thriller that brings you to the edge of the seat but doesn’t give you much to be excited about. It drives you to the point where you’d expect unpredictability but gifts you what you already might have guessed.Time Pass !!
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