Mrs Undercover Review: This spy comedy fails to realize its potential due to its uneven execution and loose script
Mrs Undercover Movie Rating: 2.5 Stars
Just watched Mrs Undercover movie on Zee5 Premium. Let’s focus on the complete details, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Radhika Apte, Sumeet Vyas and Rajesh Sharma
Director: Anushree Mehta
Release Date: 14th April 2023 on Zee5 Premium
Story: Set in Kolkata, movie begins with a self-proclaimed woman-hater Ajay (Sumeet Vyas) who films a video of his Tinder date and then kills her, repeatedly running over her body with his car until he is sure. Then he proceeds to smoke a cigarette. It’s gruesome and chilling.
A team of special force lead by Rangeela (Rajesh Sharma) is tracking this Common Man who is a serial killer who targets women who are strong and independent professionals. He has a team that keeps an eye on the special force and he kills one of their last agents. With great difficulty Rangeela locates an undercover agent Durga (Radhika Apte) who is a housewife and at times clumsy in her work who lives with her husband, in-laws and has a school-going kid.
Rangeela convinces her to go undercover and reveal the identity of the common man. Durga fatly refuses as it has been 13 years and her cover has now become the reality of her life. At first reluctant, Durga finally relents. Durga lives with her husband, Deb (Shaheb Chattopadhyay), whom she had married as part of a secret mission and is still in that marriage. Also living with them are their son and Deb’s parents. How Durga succeeds in nabbing Common Man forms the crux of the drama.
Positives
1. Performances
2. Climax
3. Few moments
4. Cinematography
Negatives
1. Half-baked story
2. Screenplay
3. Music
4. Direction
Durgesh Tiwary’s View: When I watched the trailer of this film planned to watch this movie in my free time because loved the trailer because its looks interesting due to different theme.
A simple Indian housewife who is in fact a special undercover agent is called back on the job after 10 years of being undercover to take down a terrifying, psycho killer while maintaining her parallel life of a housewife.
Mrs Undercover is half baked story which impressed in parts only. There was scope for a lot more to be done. Screenplay is mot half exciting as it should have been. The drama has several convenient twists and turns. Also, several questions crop up in your mind, but they have not answered. Common sense seems to have left the entire frame of Mrs. Undercover, where every creative decision the screenplay takes on to press on its themes of empowerment turns into a tonal misfire. The loopholes in the screenplay become so visibly huge that one has already guessed the twist in the tale miles ago. Out of nowhere Durga enrolls in a women empowerment program at a Kolkata college where our woman hater arrives as the main coordinator. The purpose of her entry into the already overcooked screenplay can be left for another conversation no one wants to have.
On the positive side, the bonding between the undercover agent and her boss, the bonding between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, the messaging of a senior citizen coming to a college course wanting to start a new business at that age all these were showcased really well in the writing. A strong supporting cast comes to the film’s rescue, and it continues to hold our attention despite the confusion as the narrative swings wildly from the absolutely terrifying scenes to the rather predictable tropes. There are definitely some moments of hilarity, but without convincing back stories.
Overall, even after the uneven execution and loose script, it manages to gather enough attention and some laughter from us. Performances also accumulate adequate points to make the bearable to watch. It did have great potential but fails due to lackluster writing. My view on this movie Time Pass but don’t expect much from this one.
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