Operation Mayfair

​"Operation Mayfair"

Watched Hindi movie "Operation Mayfair". 

This movie is directed by Sudipto Sarkar. Produced by Sushanto Sarkar, Sarbari Sikdar. Written by: Anthony Khatchaturian and Sudipto Sarkar. Cinematography: Santonio Terzio. Music: Savvy Gupta. The film stars Jimmy Shergill, Hritiqa Chheber, Anjali Sharma, Vedika Dutt, Antara Banerjee, Brain Lawrence & Ankur Bhatia . The movie runs for 1 hours 47 minutes and was released in April 2023. I watched the movie on Zee5 with Aditi on 28th Jul 2023.

Jimmy was a police officer in London but left the force to become professor and lives a sedentary life. A murder is committed. The modus operandi is similar to the case Jimmy was investigating before he left. He is called back as a consultant. The investigation starts. 

Although this is a serial killer movie the identity of the killer is not a mystery. Audience knows who the killer is. Movie is about how investigators find it.

Rather than focusing on investigation, director unnecessarily veers into side plots of Jimmy’s equation with his wife, his ex girlfriend, his strange relationship with his boss who was once his protege. It looks like the identity of murder is discovered by fluke and not by meticulous investigation and deduction.

At the end you remain unsatisfied. Neither mystery quota, nor masala quota, nor emotional quota and not acting quota is fulfilled. Jimmy is stiff and looks tired. Ankur Bhatia impresses but his character lacks depth. Others are ok.

Positives: Umm….

Negatives: As stated above.

Give it a miss.