Game (गेम)

"Game (गेम)"

Watched Hindi movie Game (गेम). Directed by Abhinay Deo, and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani. Story & Screenplay Althea Delmas and Kaushal. Music Shankar-Ehsan-Loy. Cinematography Kartik Vijay. It stars Anupam Kher, Kangana Ranut, Jimmy Shergil, Boman Irani, Shahana Goswami, Sara Jane Dias & Abhishek Bacchan. The movie is about 2 hour 14 minutes long and was released in 2011.

Kabir Malhotra (Anupam) calls actor Vikram Kapoor (Jimmy) from Mumbai, Indian Thai Politician Ramsey (Boman) from Thailand,  Indian-British Journalist Tisha Khanna (Shahana) from UK and Casino owner Neil Menon (Abhishek) from Istanbul to a secluded Greek island called Samos. There he accuses the three men of destroying a life. Next day Kabir is killed in a room that's locked from inside. 

What did the three men do? Who killed Kabir? Why? What's the game?

The film starts with a promise. Each of the invitee is in some sort of distress. Kabir entices them to join him and then accuses them. His murder introduces intrigue. But thereafter the film starts to disintegrate. What with Kangana initiating surveillance, one of them dodging it and turning out to be prime suspect to be eventually revealed as someone else. The story loses the grip and goes haywire. 

Abhishek is good. Anupam too. Others are OK. Kangana does not act, looks stiff, does not look beautiful either. There are flaws in the story. The evidence of finger print is flimsy. 

One of the songs is good. Cinematographer has lost some good opportunities. Some of the characters are not developed enough (e.g. Tisha).

This film was not successful on box office and could not recover the investment. Rightly so!

AVOID.