In Animal, to which this new avatar pays a hectic heaving homage, Tripti Dimri was asked to lick Ranbir Kapoor’s boot. In her new film O’Romeo, Shahid Kapoor asks Tripti to take off her clothes.
Just like that. Why is a popular actress like Tripti allowing herself to be so insouciantly bullied by her heroes?
The trailer of Vishal Bhardwaj’s gory venture alludes at a fierce violent love story against the backdrop of gangsterism.
Or is it the other way around? Going by the orgy of gratuitous violence it is hard to say which comes first in O’Romeo: the romance or the mayhem. Either way, O’Romeo looks catastrophically corroded and compromised.
This story of a gangster and his moll is as old as Tezaab, the N Chandra film which plays in the background while Shahid Kapoor beats up the baddies in a movie theatre. How many heroes in the past have done that?
Wait, baddies… who are the villains here? The hero is the anti-hero and the heroine is the umpteeth avatar of Moll Flanders.
And the hero? He is a criminal with little to recommend himself except his aggression. This is Dhurandhar without the chutzpah and raw reality. The entire trailer of O’Romeo seems staged and synthetic. Let’s hope the film proves more agreeable.
