London Confidential (लंडन काॅन्फीडेन्शीयल)

"London Confidential (लंडन काॅन्फीडेन्शीयल)"

Watched Hindi movie 'London Confidential (लंडन काॅन्फीडेन्शीयल)'. 

This film is directed by Kanwal Sethi. Written by S. Hussain Zaidi, Akshay Singh, Prateek Payudhi. Produced by Mohit Chhabra, Ajay Rai, Sharad Kelkar. Music by Ravi Singhal. Cinematography Ewan Mulligan. The film stars Mouni Roy, Purab Kohli, Kulraj Randhawa, Sagar Aarya, Mohan Kapoor, Pravesh Rana. The film runs for 1 hour 17 minutes and was released in 2020. I watched it on Zee5 on 25th Dec 2021 with Aditi.

RAW officials in London unearth that a new virus from China is in final stages of development. A RAW official with the source in China is captured and killed by Chinese Secret Service MSS. A very important conference is approaching in London. It's a race against time. 

Who it's the informer? What is the threat? Who is the mole?

Although the subject of the movie is the new Chinese virus, this movie is not about fight against virus but about contacting and securing the informer. 

Mouni plays the RAW station chief. The character is shown pregnant. Generally when a character is pregnant in any movie, the pregnancy has got a significance. Here there's none. Apart from restricting her movements, it achieves nothing. So why pregnant RAW agent? Purab is a RAW agent who runs a grocery store as cover. He looks smart and acts well. Kulraj plays the Ambassador. Saw her after a very long time (after her TV serial Kareena). She looks beautiful but the age is showing. 

There is a reference to a previous debacle on Mouni's watch in Istanbul in this movie, but nothing further.  Is that a seed for another movie? A sequel to this movie 'Lahore confidential' is released but it has nothing to do with any of the character of this movie. May be later?

In such a movie, the identity of traitor has to be guarded very well. The director should play his  cards close to his chest. However, in this movie, the identity is poorly concealed. One scene is what it takes for the audience to recognize the traitor. Thus what's supposed to be the biggest surprise is not a surprise any more. This is a glaring flaw that diminishes the impact value. 

Watch if you have nothing to do one afternoon.