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Cast: Tabu, Manoj Bajpayee, Annu Kapoor
Director: Mukul Abhyankar
Rating: 3 stars (out of 5)
There is a great deal missing in writer-director Mukul Abhyankar's second feature, Missing. What definitely isn't is a grasp on the mystery-thriller genre. Not every piece of the jigsaw puzzle that he juggles with falls perfectly in place, but he seems pretty adept at handling the tools and tonalities involved in the exercise. Missing is a flawed film, but with the two leads, Manoj Bajpayee and Tabu, at the very top of their game, it is reasonably absorbing, if not wholly gripping, in parts.
Playing out in the interiors and on the grounds of a luxury hotel in Port Louis, Mauritius, Missing skirts around the inevitable pitfall of shooting on such a balmy, picturesque setting. It doesn't degenerate into a superficial picture postcard film because it trains its focus firmly on an intriguing and whimsical narrative. It might occasionally seem too thickly plotted, but with several of the individual scenes livened up by the principal onscreen pair, Missing is always a few notches above the average.
The film hinges on a three-year-old girl - we never actually see her face - who vanishes into the blue in the middle of the night while a couple makes love in the next room in a cottage that they have just checked into in the sprawling seaside resort. While the woman is understandably reduced to an emotional wreck, the man appears surprisingly calm and composed. The former wants to call in the cops immediately, the latter requests her to hold her horses because he is more concerned about the trouble that the arrival of the men in uniform might spell for him and the reputation of the property.
Amid a whole array of red herrings that are hidden in plain sight, Sushant Dubey (Bajpayee), who is on a business trip here from Reunion Island, and Aparna (Tabu), who has arrived on a ship with a baby swathed in a heavy bundle of cloth, begin to play mind games with each other - and the audience - even as a Hindi-speaking Mauritian police investigator Ram Khilavan Buddu (Annu Kapoor, who makes rather risible efforts to get his French diction right but is all over the place) and two of his men, who also speak our rashtra bhasha well enough, grill the two visitors who, on their part, have a rather stiff manner of conversing.
That, sadly, is the dominant tone that the somewhat self-conscious film adopts. In striving for effect at every turn, the director stretches his resources thin at times. As a consequence, the constant effort to be a step ahead of the audience robs the film of spontaneity.
It is clear from the very outset that there is more going on here than meets the eye. Director of photography Sudeep Chatterjee's fluid camerawork and evocative lighting and editor Shree Narayan Singh's always-on-the-ball cutting augment the suspense created by Bajpayee'e fascinating facial malleability and range of expressions and Tabu's innate ability to convey, with effortless ease, the intense anguish of a mother whose daughter has gone missing.
If anything sticks out in this craftily structured generic artifice, it is the presence of the crack crime-buster who, the audience is told in the course of his entry scene, is known as 'Mr. 100 Percent', a policeman who never slips up. But the bafflingly laidback manner in which he goes about his job does not lend credence to his claim to infallibility. He actually comes across as a rather avuncular, gullible guy who sways from one side to the other like one of the tropical trees on the island caught in a squall.
That point is noted by the Mr. Dubey, who is one of the prime suspects: "When I was spinning a yarn, you were ready to believe me, but now that I am speaking the truth..." Between a complex web of lies, truths and half-truths, Missing probes flawed, fixated individuals in a drama about obsession, neurosis and survival instinct.
The screenplay, authored by Abhyankar himself, overdoes the to-ing and fro-ing between the real and the imagined, the tangible and the merely suggested, thereby injecting massive doses of whimsicality into the tale. A mysterious resort guest who is too nosey for his own good - his role in the proceedings is explained away and dispensed with rather early in the second half - holds viewer interest all too briefly.
A meat-cleaver hidden in a bag containing diapers, sundry dolls strewn around the property to arouse suspicion, and the principal male character's tendency to flirt with any girl he encounters - he does not spare the resort receptionist who upgrades his single room to a family suite - are meant to provide pointers to what might lie ahead. Some of the twists are far too arbitrary to be convincing and the abrupt climax leaves a few questions unanswered.
Watch Missing for the brilliance of Bajpayee and Tabu and the promise that it suggests of greater things from the director. It is anything but a hit-and-miss effort.
Serial killers, especially in our movies, leave a written clue at the crime spot for the investigator to pursue. Without someone to follow the lead and grudgingly appreciate their intelligence, half the kick they get from the act would be gone. For a serial killer committing such acts as revenge, leaving such clues and letting the investigator figure out a pattern appears to be compulsory, even when the revenge takes a backseat at times.
The murder of an IT employee inside a hospital kicks off the investigation. A couple of more murders take place in the same fashion. More murders are sure to happen, evident from the clues left behind by the killer, even as Ozler and his team struggle to find the common thread that connects the victims.
Certain intriguing elements are present in the script, but it all plays out tamely on the screen. Halfway through the narrative, even these elements fizzle out, as more than half of the puzzle is solved by then.
The rest of the film is a painful wait for the what and why to be told to us in a long-winded flashback story that does not hit us hard. Mammootty generates some excitement in an extended cameo, but even this does not provide the expected high to the film, which by then had hit a trough from which there was no upswing.
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Sam WitwickyCharacter InformationBirthdaySeptember 13, 1991[1]AliasSamuel James Witwicky,[1] LadiesMan217RaceHumanHeight5'9"[1]Weight165[1]Residence183 Teasedale Place, Los Angeles, CA 90039[1]AfflictionAutobotsStatus
- Presumed Deceased (AOE and TLK timelines)
- Alive (Trilogy, IDW movie comics, DOTM novelization, and Shadows Rising timelines)
- Deceased (Titan Magazines movie comics Alternate Timeline)
Samuel James Witwicky is the Human Main protagonist of the first three films and overall one of the main protagonists of the Transformers Cinematic Universe. He is the descendant of Archibald Witwicky, and frequently ends up in the crossfire in the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. He can seem to be unadventurous sometimes, but he has the makings of a true leader.
When Sam discovered the concept of riding around in cars to cruise for chicks, he began striving to get a car, and put his great-great-grandfather's heirlooms on eBay. His father one day promised to buy Sam a car if he gathered $2,000 dollars and got three A grades in school.
After getting a third undeserved A- for his genealogy report, Sam went with his father to buy a car. Though they passed a Porsche car lot, Ron was actually playing a cruel joke on his son. Going to Bobby Bolivia's car lot, they went shopping for a used car. Sam spotted a Camaro that he liked, but Ron, ever the cheap man, refused to go over four thousand dollars. However, when all the windows in the car lot suddenly exploded, Bolivia agreed to four thousand.
Sam took his buddy Miles to the lake, where they encountered Mikaela and her boyfriend Trent. Trent tried to get them to leave, but Mikaela then dumped Trent. Realizing he had his one shot, Sam abandoned Miles and offered to give Mikaela a ride home. When his car had some engine trouble, Mikaela looked under the hood and was quite impressed with the layout of the Camaro's engine, though Sam was more impressed with the layout of Mikaela. After giving her a ride home, Mikaela asked Sam if he thought she was shallow. Sam awkwardly replied that he thought there was "more than meets the eye...with you". After berating himself for his lame pickup line, Sam watched Mikaela wave goodbye from her porch and felt that he had made progress, prompting him to say he loved his car.
Later that night, his car suddenly left. Believing it was being stolen, Sam followed it to an abandoned junkyard. To his shock and horror, the car was alive. Sam left his last words to his parents and Mojo (in which he acknowledged that he owned the Busty Beauties issues that were given to him by his uncle Charles), then investigated. Some police came and arrested him, and an overzealous cop, believing him to be a junkie, called him "50 Cent". Once he returned home, the Camaro arrived, and Sam fled ignominiously on his mother's pink bike. He hit the cement hard in front of Mikaela and soon found a police car. He demanded the officer's help...at which point said police car revealed itself to be Barricade, transformed and attacked. After throwing Sam onto a nearby vehicle, Barricade demanded the location of Sam's eBay items, but Sam fled and ran into Mikaela. The Camaro arrived and took them to a power plant, where the two Transformers fought it out while Sam was chased by Frenzy who pantsed him. Mikaela was able to cut off its head, which Sam punted away.
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