Movie Review: Siddharth – The Prisoner
Producer: Vistaar Religare Film Fund, Walkwater Media & Alliance Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Director: Pryas Gupta
Cast: Rajat Kapoor, Sachin Nayak and Praddip Sagar
Music: Sagar Desai
Vistaar Religare Film Fund, Walkwater Media & Alliance Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.’s ‘Siddharth – The Prisoner’ releases today starring Rajat Kapoor, Sachin Nayak and Praddip Sagar in the lead roles. Pryas Gupta makes his directorial debut with this flick. He also shares credit on the producers’ list with Rohan Gupta and Sandeep Hooda.
Churned out with a shoestring budget, ‘Siddharth – The Prisoner’ is a big lackluster in terms of quality and even from all aspects. The movie buffs, who want to watch it to get some sort of entertainment, should instantly leave the idea behind and stay at home instead. This kind of unconventional flick should better be targeted at the film festivals. It has nothing to do with the mainstream commercial cinema. The film has won series of accoloades in several film festivals but falls flat at the box office and leaves the cinegoers disappointed.
Siddharth Roy (Rajat Kapoor) has just released from prison, who was once a celebrated writer. He finishes his manuscript and is determined that the new book will restore his reputation and mend ways with his estranged better half Maya.
But destiny has something else in store for him. His manuscript goes missing in a cyber café when his briefcase gets exchanged with someone else’s briefcase, which carries a large sum of money. Siddharth loses the only copy of his manuscript. The cyber café manager Mohan (Sachin Nayak) is in under pressure now from his boss (Praddip Sagar) to recover the lost money. Meanwhile, Siddharth Roy is unable to find happiness with the money. Nevertheless, he is unwilling to part with the moolah and at the same time trying to find his lost manuscript.
The first hour of the film appears much tedious, as the introduction of the characters (which are barely a few) takes place in it only. The story too opens up at a lethargic pace leaving the viewer yawn. What the writer and the director liked to express or convey in this film is absolutely vague. You try to understand but fail. Interestingly the writing jobs (story and screenplay) have been done by the director Pryas Gupta. Editing, that is mundane, has been dolled up by Pryas Gupta himself and Arindam Ghatak. Dialogues have no sparks and have been scribbled down by Pryas Gupta along with Hitesh Kewalia.
Since the writing is poor, the same case is with the direction that has nothing to rave about. Looks, the director has lost his energies in doing different jobs for this film, as in addition to being a director, he is a producer, storywriter, screenplay cum dialogues writer and the editor of this project.
Rajat Kapoor, the intelligent actor, fails to impress. Sachin Nayak is okay. Praddip Sagar enacts averagely. Rest of the cast does not look potentially attractive.
On the whole, ‘Siddharth – the Prisoner’ is poor in every sense of the word. Do something else if you have planned to watch it.
RS Rating: 1/5
Film Critic: Goher Iqbal Punn
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