While Rukmani insists that Ratan is out on a business trip, Meesha senses there's something fishy and either her father is missing or dead. At some point, everyone is on the radar and is suspected to have kill Ratan, but I guessed it much early on. There's estate manager Kapil (Vikrant Massey), a top cop Ashok (Rahul Dev), family doctor Shekhawat (Shishir Sharma), Meesha's rich cousin Rana Jai Singh (Akshay Oberoi) and a dog named Commander. She is welcomed home by her sultry stepmom Rukmani (Chitrangda Singh) and a bunch of servants at the estate, who appear as and when they are needed to take the story forward. All this while, she hasn't seen her father or even heard his voice.
The film begins with a wheelchair-bound Meesha (Sara Ali Khan) returning to her royal haveli, after over a decade to meet her father His Majesty Ratan (Shataf Ahmed Figar). And not to forget, you have to sit through 1.5 hours to actually reach that one high. Okay, yes, the last 20 minutes and the climax kind of redeems the film, but it's too little too late. I agree that level would be difficult to match, but with Gaslight, it's rather underestimating the audience's intelligence, expecting them to solve this mystery where there's actually none. Gaslight amused me further because director Pavan Kriplani had earlier given us a brilliant thriller like Phobia starring Radhika Apte, and Ragini MMS. You can't expect audiences to sit around for nearly two hours and serve such a mediocre film. I, personally, enjoy whodunnits and murder mysteries, but they need to be intelligently written and cleverly shot.
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(Also read: Gaslight Twitter review: Sara Ali Khan called 'irritating', film termed 'boring and slow, not engaging at all' ) Gaslight movie review: Chitrangada Sen, Sara Ali Khan and Vikrant Massey star in the movie. The overall premise of the film isn't that bad but the execution and the predictable first 15 minutes itself ruin the whole experience.
If anything, it bores you, and makes you smirk at places where you feel the attempt was to scare you. I mean actual horror films Veerana (1988) and Band Darwaza (1990) did a better job at these back then. Even the horror is limited to jump-scares, dark lighting, shadowy entities, a lantern lying on the ground and pianos playing on their own. I really don't get the point why most suspense thrillers take form of whodunnits, and are then laced with elements of horror.
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