Blind

Sonam Kapoor’s comeback vehicle is a huff and puff show. The lead actor exudes a fair degree of enthusiasm as she goes through the motions of playing a doughty, sightless woman battling a dangerous foe. A remake is only another remake when all that it manages to be is a slavish reproduction. Blind, written and directed by Shome Makhija, is just that – an unimaginative rehash that refuses to think for itself. It places all its eggs in a single tattering basket, which inevitably comes unstuck well before the two-hour film has wended its way to a predictable climax.

Blind is a replication without a vision. It is slick and taut but to no avail. Its undoing is that it expends no effort at all on putting a fresh spin on the original, a 2011 South Korean film of the same name. The Hindi version, streaming on JioCinema, contains nary a shred that could justify the film’s existence. It is indeed difficult to see why this crime thriller had to be made when it is so loath to reimagine anything that went into the Korean film. In technical terms, Blind is near-perfect. The contributions of cinematographer Gairik Sarkar, editor Tanupriya Sharma and music composers Clinton Cerejo and Bianca Gomes lend superficial gloss to the film. Blind is good to look at but exasperatingly inert.

Genres:Drama

Director:Shome Makhija

Cast:Sonam Kapoor, Purab Kohli, Vinay Pathak, Lillete Dubey and Lucy Aarden