Genius is a romantic psychological spy action thriller film directed by Anil Sharma. The film stars Utkarsh Sharma, Ishita Chauhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Mithun Chakraborty and Ayesha Jhulka.
An orphan joins RAW, the foreign intelligence agency of India. During a mission, all of his comrades die and he decides to seek revenge to find peace in his life.
This is the debut film for Utkarsh Sharma as an adult the son of Anil Sharma and the expectations were quite high but the film fails to deliver not because of one but many reasons. The film despite of it's promising start fails to capitalize the start and wanders in many direction and at one point the film start wandering like headless chicken although the director successfully pulls it back but in my opinion it gets too late as the viewers might already had got disconnected from the film.
The plot of the film is good but the execution is below par. All the scenes involving technology doesn't looks convincing. The film has some good twists and turns but over the period of time it's gets many twists and turns and might irritate few viewers if not confuse.
Acting is great by Utkarsh Sharma and he deserves a standing applause as he was very impressive in his debut. Ishita Chauhan was average. Mithun and Nawaz were very impressive specially Nawaz in the role of MRS. Ayesha Jhulka was underused.
The screenplay of the film is fast paced and good but as mentioned earlier too many twists and turns may disconnect the viewers. Songs of the film is melodious and BGM is effective.
Overall a decent film which could've been great but i'll mark this as an opportunity missed.