Siddiqui’s performance matches the earnestness with which most of the actors approach the trite material. There’s more polish than spit, so when Taimur meets his predictable fate, you wonder if it is because he is the most unkempt of the characters. The hookers look like ramp models slumming it out the brothel inhabited by Shashi and Taimur ( Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a lame hanger-on with big dreams who inserts himself into the proceedings, as well as the hotel where the hookers ply their trade, are artfully sleazy.
Mohahan’s cinematography and Sharmishta Roy’s production design attempt to set the tone for a moody, literally dark story set in Mumbai’s underbelly.īut Talaash is an Excel Entertainment film, and suffers from that company’s obsession with perfection and luxury. There is no lack of effort on the crew’s part: K.U. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense or Robert Zemeckis’ What Lies Beneath did. The film ticks along efficiently despite being saddled with a handful of ordinary tunes by Ram Sampath, but it rarely conjures up a sense of foreboding the way, say, M.
Ltd, displays competence and confidence in setting up her story, but she doesn’t follow up with imaginativeness. Kagti, who previously directed the multi-starrer Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Mum is the word, but keen Hollywood watchers will get the drift pretty quickly. Surjan gets some succour from Rosy ( Kareena Kapoor), a hooker who spells oomph in capital letters, but the reason behind that is not the possibility that Surjan hasn’t had a roll in the hay since the day his son died. The recurring motif of Surjan diving underwater in search of answers isn’t taken anywhere beyond the obvious. He seems more irritated than troubled-his permanently furrowed brow might as well have been a birthmark. Surjan’s simmering tensions drive him into the lap of insomnia, but he never seems to be wrenched apart by tragedy.
Surjan blames himself for the tragedy and internalizes his guilt, while his wife takes recourse to counselling sessions and séances. Like Tom Cruise’s John Anderton from Minority Report, Surjan and his wife Roshni ( Rani Mukerji) haven’t gotten over the death of their son in a drowning accident. Surjan is arguably diverted by his tense domestic situation. Hunting party: Aamir Khan’s cop collaborates with Kareena Kapoor’s prostitute in ‘Talaash’
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