Nonsense (2018)
2/10
Lives up to its name .... Utter Nonsense
31 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Typically a nonsense film.

Watched it with the premise that it would be like Notebook (2006) which was undoubtedly well made and gave nostalgic vibes while dealing with realities of school life.

Starts off portraying the life of a dull but kind hearted schoolboy, and the promos make the film appear as a school days based romantic story. But the film is full of coincidences that drag it from one scenario to a totally different one - school life to public strike to the struggle to save a child's life, interspersed with public violence and drama, to a discussion about medicine, interspersed with dialogue and drama and extra scenes that simply prolong this film for nearly 2.5 hours when it could have very well ended within 90 minutes.

And this is in no way a sports film, with the only sports scene being the hero cycling in his bmx bike at times to reach places. Neither is it a proper love story nor a film based on academics, or human relationships, etc.

Rinosh George and Vinay Fort's roles are the best and commendable, and the songs are melodious, but the direction and script looks messy, and all culminate into an unremarkable ending. And the hero's love interest barely has any role, except for eyeballing him and collecting his scribbles from the dustbins, which again betrays the promos of the film.

Perhaps the film could be compared to a recipe that went wrong due to wrong ingredients put in at the wrong time in wrong proportions.

One reality about the world is exemplified in the end (though it may not have been the moral of the film intended) - some people are truly ungrateful (Sheena miss), so decide wisely how much you should be willing to do for them at your expense (even if you are a so called 'good human being').

It certainly could have been better, even if had it been based on the simple lines of a school goer's life or a romantic tale.

Disappointing thoroughfare.
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