Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie Star Cast/ Actors: Tamannaah Bhatia as Kamini Singh, Jimmy Shergill as Jaswinder Singh, Avinash Tiwary as Sikandar Sharma, Ashrut Jain as Manish, Divya Dutta, Amrita Kumari as Cop, Rajeev Mehta as Mangesh Desai, Anupam K. Sinha as Diamond Merchant Vardhan & more.
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie Director: Neeraj Pandey
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie Release Date: November 29, 2024
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie Available On: Netflix OTT Platform
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie Released/ Available In Languages: Hindi
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie Runtime: 142 Minutes
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie Critic Review:
An investigating officer drunk on his perfect 100 per cent score. With his mool viriti (instinct) never letting him down, Jaswinder Singh (Jimmy Shergill) is Mumbai Police’s star investigator. If a case needs to be cracked right now, even the Home Minister would pick Jaswinder with his unerring nose, for the job.
Mumbai, 2009. Five red solitaires stolen from an exhibition.
From a sea of faces, Jaswinder picks computer technician Sikandar Sharma (Avinash Tiwary), Kamini Singh (Tamannah Bhatia) and Mangesh Desai (Rajeev Mehta) as the suspects.
15 years elapse. Jaswinder has been hitting the bottle. His boss hands him his termination letter, calling it his license to drink all day.
2009. When Jaswinder’s instinct tells him he cannot be wrong but every bit of investigation, every bit of culprit-thrashing yields no evidence, the unsolved case turns into a blot on his impeccable record.
Sikandar has only one response. “One day, you’ll look me in the eye man to man and say sorry.”
Written by director Neeraj Pandey and Vipul K Rawal, what happened in 2009 leapfrogs into 2024, sometimes swinging back to the heist and the power of the officer to make Sikandar’s life miserable. Never mind if his blemished record and how-could-I-go-wrong obsession has drowned Jaswinder’s own life in alcohol and his marriage to Kaushalya (Divya Dutta in a brief appearance) has ended in a divorce.
“Your pigheadedness has ruined you,” Sikandar puts it pithily.
Neeraj Pandey (famous for A Wednesday and Special 26) returns to his favourite ground of a cat-n-mouse chase and keeps alive the element of surprise most of the way.
Although he tripped in the recent Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha which was not his forte, Neeraj deftly handles a handful of soft scenes like Jaswinder’s divorce and builds pleasant chemistry between Sikandar and co-accused Kamini. But routine tropes like a tuneless background song, rain and flamingoes are used to bring alive a budding romance.
The cop and who’s-the-criminal thriller keeps you guessing. Who’s the real culprit? How did Jaswinder’s instinct let him down? How was the heist pulled off?
But at the end, if you really think about it, some of the moments that are supposed to be epiphanic are fuzzy. How precisely does the honk of a car reveal to a man the machinations of those around him? Or, how did a particular moment after his divorce give Jaswinder clarity on the heist? Were such moments brought in only to make the main characters seem OMG so clever?
Some of Neeraj Pandey’s shots are also getting to be familiar. A long shot from a terrace to look down on a man all by himself on the road. We just saw it in Auron Mein…
The director’s penchant for a last shot which leaves behind a question continues. In A Wednesday, he ended just when the would-be terrorist (played by Naseeruddin Shah) is about to reveal his identity. He ends again with a long shot.
Jimmy Shergill is always competent and works well as a shrewd policeman with his own arrogance. But there aren’t any shades to Jaswinder or any menace like Arif Khan had in A Wednesday. Avinash Tiwary has the role of a lifetime. But does he have lady-killer charm?
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie – Watch Or Not?: The guessing game is a good time-pass for home viewing on a weekend.
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar Movie Review Score Rating: 2.5 out of 5 (i.e. 2.5/5)
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