Star cast: Vivek Sudarshan, Sayali Bhagat, Charu Asopa, Hrishikesh Joshi, Rounak Ahuja.
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Plot: Vivek falls in love with Sayali who is already engaged to be married. Under the mistaken belief that she also loves him, Vivek kidnaps her moments before her wedding. What follows thereafter is mayhem.
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What’s Bad: Everything, from the script to the acting.
Verdict: Impatient Vivek is very poor.
Loo break: Anytime, any number of times.
To Watch or Not? Watch at completely your own risk!
Search Films Production’s Impatient Vivek (A) is a love story about Vivek alias IV (Vivek Sudarshan) who falls in love with Shruti (Sayali Bhagat). She doesn’t love him but impatient as he is, he does not even wait for her to fall in love with him. Instead, he kidnaps her on her wedding day so that he can marry her.
Even as Shruti’s parents and family worry for her and complain to the police, Vivek and his family and driver (who doubles up as a friend) keep her in captivity fearing that she would get them arrested if she were allowed to go. Does Shruti finally reciprocate Vivek’s love? Or does she complain to the police? Is she able to escape or not? Answers to these and some other questions are revealed in the climax.
Script & Screenplay
B.K. Tyagi’s story is childish, to say the least. Rahat Kazmi’s screenplay is even worse. Although this is a love story, romance is completely missing. The comic scenes are so pathetic that the viewer would tear his hair apart because not a single light moment is worth even a smile. Why would any guy kidnap a girl on her wedding day without confirming whether she, too, loves him, is not explained. And if Vivek had assumed that Shruti was in love with him, that assumption or the basis for it just doesn’t come across. Even worse than this is the stand taken by Vivek’s parents. They too are party to the kidnapping of Shruti because they, like their son, believe that Shruti loves Vivek. How that can give a licence to anyone to kidnap a girl is not explained. Even after Vivek and his parents are informed by Shruti that she doesn’t love him, they don’t think it necessary to release her from their captivity. Continuing to keep her captive because they are scared that she’ll complain to the police looks weird, to say the least. All Vivek and his parents had to do was to apologise to Shruti for the genuine misunderstanding. But no, they don’t even think of this option.
If the script is full of holes, the comic scenes are dull, boring and anything but funny. In the absence of inherent comedy in the writing, the actors end up making faces and mumbling sentences in a bid to make the audience laugh. But they don’t succeed one bit. Even the light banter between Vivek and his friends or between Vivek and Shruti does not evoke laughter. Shruti’s doctor-father behaves so stupidly that the public would wonder if he needs medical attention!
The track of Shruti’s step-brother looks forced into the drama. And the step-brother’s romantic track is equally contrived. Why, even showing Vivek as a puppeteer has no relevance to the drama. All in all, B.K. Tyagi and Rahat Kazmi’s script has absolutely nothing to offer. Dialogues (by Rahat Kazmi) are poor.
Star Performances
Vivek Sudarshan is no hero material. His acting is poor. Sayali Bhagat is an embarrassment to watch, so weak is her performance. Most of the times, she overacts. Hrishikesh Joshi, as Vivek’s driver, Jaggi, is irritating – and not just because the driver seems to be ruling the lives of all the members of the family. Charu Asopa is quite alright as Rani. Rounak Ahuja acts ably as Annu (Shruti’s step-brother). Muni Jha, Pratik Dixit, Nirmal Soni, Ashok Beniwal, R.P. Singh, Kirti Kapoor, Vijay Bhatia, Sharmila Goenka, Hemangi Rao, Anurag Saxena and Zia A. Khan lend dull support.
Direction and Music
Rahat Kazmi’s direction is weak. Music (Raja Ali, Shahdaab Bhartiya and Neeraj Srivastava) is good. ‘Ek pari pagal si’, ‘Tujhe manga hai’, ‘Khurafat’ and ‘Meri nindiya udne’ are appealing songs. But song picturisations are not upto the mark. Nusrat Srivastava’s lyrics of ‘Ek pari’ are good. Background music (Boney P. John) is ordinary. M. Sethuraman’s camerawork is fair. Production and technical values are ordinary.
The Last Word
On the whole, Impatient Vivek is an embarrassingly poor fare with almost nil chances at the ticket windows.
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