Roy: The Review

I am not quite sure if Vikramjit Singh’s Roy is the best way to start this blog but the faster the better. Sure this happening Bollywood movie has a collection of brilliant songs to boast about and a cast to carry the hype along too, but the only persistent and unattended question remains as to where is the story?

Roy talks about two different stories of two different people, who have incidentally pounded upon a single layer of togetherness where their stories superimpose upon each other’s, only to consume 148 minutes of the unsuspecting audience’s time. Poorly scripted, this movie should have been a director’s nightmare but times have changed and anything, seemingly, sells.

A director, Kabir (played by Arjun Rampal) , severely attacked by writer’s block has received amounts for his next movie from his producers. He doesn’t have a script ready and he sits with a type writer one fine night, teamed up with a bottle of whisky and a packet of cigarettes. With a “flawless” script he goes on to Malaysia to shoot his movie, Guns III. His lead actor is Roy (played by Ranbir Kapoor) who is on a mission to steal half a painting which he would later sell to some art collector. Now, the painting (or half of it) is in the possession of Tia (Jacqueline Fernandez), his film’s lead heroine. So Roy goes to Malaysia, gets into Tia’s bed and sods off with the painting.

The romance between Roy and Tia runs on parallel lines with that between Kabir and Ayesha (also played by Jacqueline), who is another film maker based on London, shooting for her movie Malaccan Diaries. Roy and Kabir drift into a journey of self-discovery after they get swayed away from their respective mistresses (or so). After a baffling 148 minutes and a few mindless songs, the men are united once again with their mistresses.

The story is so under materialized and boring that an entire five minute song showing Ranbir on his bike riding on a Malaysian highway remains in the edited version, that too in slow motion. The lyrics of the song (tu hai ke nai..) and the expression on Ranbir Kapoor’s face sums up the review of the movie in totality. Watch that and you won’t need to read this anymore.

Since you are still reading this review, I have my mercy on you and with that thought I would request you to drop the idea of watching Roy. If you still insist, well, best of luck.

Acting: 2.5/5

Script: 2/5

Direction: I pity you

Overall: 2/5

Verdict: Run while you can