Apartment Movie Review
Apartment (Hindi)
Preeti Sengupta (Tanushree Dutta) is an airhostess living in with her boyfriend Karan Malhotra (Rohit Roy). They share a nice 2BHK apartment in the northern suburbs of Mumbai and are befriended by their elderly neighbor Madhusudan Tanha (Anupam Kher), a struggling poet and lyricist. Tanha is a loner living with his only companion, a Persian cat whom he lovingly calls Shehzadi. Preeti is possessive and has issues with trust. When she mistakenly suspects her boyfriend to be unfaithful, she throws him out of the house but soon realizes she can’t afford the payment on the apartment on her own. On the advice of a fellow airhostess, she advertises for a tenant to share her apartment. Enter Neha Bhardwaj (Neetu Chandra), a modest small town girl asking for accommodation. Very impressed by her simplicity and respectfulness, Preeti believes she has found a perfect roommate. The two girls soon become close their camaraderie leads them to even become companions. Until things begin to go disastrously wrong slowly and steadily. Preeti's seemingly normal life is thrown off gear with a series of incidents that take her by surprise. Is it just co incidence or is someone deliberately causing all the trouble? Is Neha really as simple as she seems? In the grip of mystery, unforeseen and gruesome events and murder at its heinous best, the truth seems shocking as it unfolds. As Neha and Preeti are torn apart by suspicion, deceit and betrayal, the question is will the romance between Karan and Preeti survive or…
The acting is abysmal. The production values are tacky. And the writing is laugh-out-loud funny.
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Read moreAccept soft-core pornography in Indian films, and you’ll get rid of poor apologies such as these that have to force in plots, since they can’t just make a semi-porn pic instead
Read moreApart from the fact that it is stolen, `The Apartment’ suffers from bland acting, and superfluous songs
Read moreThat’s really the problem with Apartment... the constant dive into B-movie terrain. It’s a decent premise. But you can see that the plot is just an excuse to ‘flesh’ the movie out. Every second scene of the 110-minute film
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