Neeyat is mostly an OK movie, with plot events that feel familiar, revelations that just drop out of the blue and characters that behave like no real person actually would. It's the kind of movie that would make one wonder at the end.. "when you put it like that, it sounds like we were all high or something".
Begin plot: So Aashish Kapoor, an Indian millionaire, invites a special group of friends and relatives to a huge castle in Scotland for his birthday party (sound familiar?). He had been accused of loan fraud and of not paying his employees, resulting in a few of them committing suicide so fearing for the law, he'd been living a runaway life in Scotland (also sound familiar?).
Intending to surrender to the Indian authorities after a night of fun with people he trusts, he also invites Mira Rao, a CBI officer, so she can oversee proceedings and extradite him. The only other person in the castle is the event manager.
The party does not go as planned and after an outburst in which Ashish screams at his friends and calls them leaches, he is found to have jumped off a cliff to his death and carried away by the sea. Mira deducts that he must have been pushed off the cliff and begins investigating the murder. During the course of her investigation, she deduces that each of Ashish's guests had a reason to kill him.
Then it is revealed that the event manager is actually a journalist and was there to expose Ashish's secrets. In an attempt to do this, he gets killed by apparently stumbling onto a rock or something. Then the best friend dies after it is revealed that he killed the event manager and stealing the secrets from him that he had stolen from Ashish. And finally everyone in the house agrees that there is a killer in their midst and seek help from Mira.
Then it is revealed that it was all Ashish and his sisters (Zoya the astrologer) plan all along. Ashish had faked his death in front of the entire group so that he could actually escape to a different land and live a new life free from the persecution of Indian authorities. Then he gets killed by actually falling off a cliff, and Mira leaves. Then it's revealed that Mira was not actually Mira but an impostor who happened to be the girlfriend of one of the suicide victims and she had plotted the downfall of Ashish as revenge for her girlfriend's suicide.
End plot
Yep that was bad so where do we start?
The only good thing about this movie has to be that it doesn't feel overly bloated despite the unnecessarily long introduction sequence. As laughable as most events in the movie are, they just pass by fairly quickly so you don't really feel the drag. The location is good too. I guess music counts. Performances are decent but you'd really expect more from a cast as stellar as this.
Now I'd normally be ok with Vidya Balan as any character. She is super talented and can pull off any role effortlessly. But it feels wrong here. The makers have tried to give her character a Sherlock Holmes-ish flavour. She is slightly eccentric, mostly non social, and knows everything there is to be known - from advanced chemistry to social behaviour-ology(is that a thing?), network cracking, and what not. But at the end of the movie you're left wondering "wait a minute.. what!??how??" How is a cyber employee (ok I can give her the cracking skill) a chemist, psychologist, detective all at the same time? And how does she happen to have a gun? If she's supposed to be a mysterious character who just vanishes, where'd the gun come from?
The part where Mira gets unconscious and just happens to overhear the siblings is ridiculous. Why would two villains discuss their evil plan in front of someone? Sleeping or not? Just imagine the entire plot reveal at the end if the eavesdropping part never happened.
Miras entry into the movie is just as questionable. If there's a storm raging outside, and the bridges are all closed so that the Scotland Yard is prevented from reaching the castle, how does Mira reach it? Why does no one ask this question? Why is no one even remotely suspicious of her?? Also how does Ashish not know that Mira is actually supposed to arrive the following day? And what was his escape plan? How long was he going to stay in that secret place? Why did he think that the police would not find it if his secretary could? Damn so many questions. I guess it was just not thought through enough.
And then the final plot twist is just the writers not being sure how to finish things off and actually convince people that everything that just happened was legitimate. So how did an absolute outsider happen to know that there was a party going on? How did she know that Gigi was also a journalist and probably related to Tanmay? And how did she know about Mira Roy? And how did she know all the secrets she could milk from the people? And how did she know the guest list? The answer: She hacked into everyone's computers. Ok but how did she get access to their computer networks?? That's not how hacking actually works, you know. This would have made a lot more sense if this entire revenge angle was avoided and Mira was actually just a CBI officer.
There's probably a lot more to say but well.. it's mostly all forgettable fluff so I've just... forgotten.
Neeyat is timepass. It's an OK movie that you could probably watch and not think about it too much and end up believing it's an amazing movie. In truth it just about works for a brainless watch.
Begin plot: So Aashish Kapoor, an Indian millionaire, invites a special group of friends and relatives to a huge castle in Scotland for his birthday party (sound familiar?). He had been accused of loan fraud and of not paying his employees, resulting in a few of them committing suicide so fearing for the law, he'd been living a runaway life in Scotland (also sound familiar?).
Intending to surrender to the Indian authorities after a night of fun with people he trusts, he also invites Mira Rao, a CBI officer, so she can oversee proceedings and extradite him. The only other person in the castle is the event manager.
The party does not go as planned and after an outburst in which Ashish screams at his friends and calls them leaches, he is found to have jumped off a cliff to his death and carried away by the sea. Mira deducts that he must have been pushed off the cliff and begins investigating the murder. During the course of her investigation, she deduces that each of Ashish's guests had a reason to kill him.
Then it is revealed that the event manager is actually a journalist and was there to expose Ashish's secrets. In an attempt to do this, he gets killed by apparently stumbling onto a rock or something. Then the best friend dies after it is revealed that he killed the event manager and stealing the secrets from him that he had stolen from Ashish. And finally everyone in the house agrees that there is a killer in their midst and seek help from Mira.
Then it is revealed that it was all Ashish and his sisters (Zoya the astrologer) plan all along. Ashish had faked his death in front of the entire group so that he could actually escape to a different land and live a new life free from the persecution of Indian authorities. Then he gets killed by actually falling off a cliff, and Mira leaves. Then it's revealed that Mira was not actually Mira but an impostor who happened to be the girlfriend of one of the suicide victims and she had plotted the downfall of Ashish as revenge for her girlfriend's suicide.
End plot
Yep that was bad so where do we start?
The only good thing about this movie has to be that it doesn't feel overly bloated despite the unnecessarily long introduction sequence. As laughable as most events in the movie are, they just pass by fairly quickly so you don't really feel the drag. The location is good too. I guess music counts. Performances are decent but you'd really expect more from a cast as stellar as this.
Now I'd normally be ok with Vidya Balan as any character. She is super talented and can pull off any role effortlessly. But it feels wrong here. The makers have tried to give her character a Sherlock Holmes-ish flavour. She is slightly eccentric, mostly non social, and knows everything there is to be known - from advanced chemistry to social behaviour-ology(is that a thing?), network cracking, and what not. But at the end of the movie you're left wondering "wait a minute.. what!??how??" How is a cyber employee (ok I can give her the cracking skill) a chemist, psychologist, detective all at the same time? And how does she happen to have a gun? If she's supposed to be a mysterious character who just vanishes, where'd the gun come from?
The part where Mira gets unconscious and just happens to overhear the siblings is ridiculous. Why would two villains discuss their evil plan in front of someone? Sleeping or not? Just imagine the entire plot reveal at the end if the eavesdropping part never happened.
Miras entry into the movie is just as questionable. If there's a storm raging outside, and the bridges are all closed so that the Scotland Yard is prevented from reaching the castle, how does Mira reach it? Why does no one ask this question? Why is no one even remotely suspicious of her?? Also how does Ashish not know that Mira is actually supposed to arrive the following day? And what was his escape plan? How long was he going to stay in that secret place? Why did he think that the police would not find it if his secretary could? Damn so many questions. I guess it was just not thought through enough.
And then the final plot twist is just the writers not being sure how to finish things off and actually convince people that everything that just happened was legitimate. So how did an absolute outsider happen to know that there was a party going on? How did she know that Gigi was also a journalist and probably related to Tanmay? And how did she know about Mira Roy? And how did she know all the secrets she could milk from the people? And how did she know the guest list? The answer: She hacked into everyone's computers. Ok but how did she get access to their computer networks?? That's not how hacking actually works, you know. This would have made a lot more sense if this entire revenge angle was avoided and Mira was actually just a CBI officer.
There's probably a lot more to say but well.. it's mostly all forgettable fluff so I've just... forgotten.
Neeyat is timepass. It's an OK movie that you could probably watch and not think about it too much and end up believing it's an amazing movie. In truth it just about works for a brainless watch.
