Logout Movie Cast/Actors: Babil Khan, Rasika Dugal, Gandharv Dewan, Nimisha Nair & Others
Logout Movie Director: Amit Golani
Logout Movie Production House: Viacom18 Studios, Posham Pa Pictures & Zee5
Logout Movie Release Date: 18th April, 2025
Logout Movie Available On: Zee5 OTT Platform
Logout Movie Released/Available In Languages: Hindi
Logout Movie Runtime: 1h 55m
Logout Movie Critic Review:
The opening line that a ‘cell’ phone has 1 billion prisoners is substantiated by all that follows.
The security guard of a high-rise is so ‘imprisoned’ by a cricket match on his cell phone that he barely notices a visitor putting his name down as ‘Virat Kohli’ in the register.
Director Amit Golani is off to an energetic start as a lady comes out of the high-rise and a body comes hurtling down from the terrace. All you see is the splatter of blood on her as she screams.
The tone is efficiently maintained as Pratyush Dua (Babil Khan) wakes up to do what every gizmo-reliant, tech-freaky youngster does – ignore calls from Mummy, get gadget ‘Aby-e’ to switch on/switch off the lights and turn on mood music while a robot cleans the house and he’s online all the time. Contactless food, friends whose numbers he doesn’t know by heart coz it’s all stored in one gadget, followers who mean everything to him, an entire life that’s inside his mobile phone. He’s even done the unforgivable with his dad when the parent came between Pratyush and his mobile phone.
Amit and writer Biswapati Sarkar create an identifiable, today’s world for Pratyush, or Pratman as he’s known to his rising followers. But followers come with a price tag, a price that could jolt you back to reality.
Coffee with his sister (Rasika Duggal) gives a whiff of what’s been brewing in Pratyush’s life. “Give up smoking,” he tells his sis. “You give up your cell phone,” she retorts. He cannot.
When your whole life is stored in your cell phone (passwords, contact numbers, confidential photographs and other digital secrets) and your fame revolves around a ‘Make Them Notice You’ motto, it takes more than a splash of cold water to come down to terra firma.
The Golani-Sarkar team keeps it racy and the thrill is on as Pratyush is taught the lesson of his life with telling scenes instead of preachy lectures.
I liked the touch of a mouse (a live one) in Pratyush’s house. The feeling of getting trapped that’s built and of breaking free.
There are several scenes that give you the creeps. Like a machine spewing out pages in the dark.
Or scenes that encapsulate online fame – an influencer who endorses smudge-proof kajal at a grandparent’s funeral but posts pictures with an animal; a dizzy rise in followers when videos are posted doing the ‘Bumpy ride’ – pants down with a twerking backside to the camera.
The final few scenes are grounding. Pratyush’s de-addiction, passengers on the metro preoccupied with mobiles. Worse, for every addict who’s rehabilitated by twists and turns, there’s a younger one fascinated with a growing number of followers on his account. A scary reality.
But the film does have its lax bits of writing. A) A young, gizmo-reliant tech-crazy celebrity’s first reaction would be to call the cops when he knows his phone could be misused and could tear apart his reputation. B) You wonder why Pratyush never once asked for the taxi driver’s number instead of having his petulant caller play messenger. C) OTPs are sent by email too, not only on the registered phone. D) Payments can be made by others (like manager JD) instead of parting with a valued password. E) Which tech-freak won’t have a backup system in place for emergencies?
But it’s the general message that matters and Amit-Biswapati sends that out through the well-filmed tale of Pratyush Dua. A pat on the back for Babil Khan too, for going through the many shades of the addict only to note that the addiction is too widespread for a cure.
Logout – Watch Or Not?: It’s relevant, it’s urgent, it’s a thriller well told if you don’t ask too many questions.
Logout Review Score Rating: 3 out of 5 (i.e. 3/5)
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Credits: Zee5
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