Utt Pataang Review

Utt Pataang

Reviewed by Sab Khan

Srikanth V. Velagaleti’s Utt Pataang is an exciting attempt to chronicle events occurring in one night just like in the movie Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin. Though the latter was a tense and grave movie, the former is much lighter.

Utt Pataang does not focus singularly on any one character, but rather on incidents which drag the movie at a snail's pace towards the so-called climax. The story revolves around a mysterious bag full of money, and how each character ends up in the same room (where the money bag is) for the whole night. Vinay Pathak, the popular hero of non-popular movies, plays a double role; one is Ram and the other is Lucky.

Ram, who has just broken up with his girlfriend Sanjana (Mahie Gill), meets Koyal (Mona Singh), who has also been ditched by her boyfriend, in a restaurant. Nandu (Saurabh Shukla) is the guy who sets up their rendezvous. He is a detective and Ram’s best friend. Sanjana’s latest boyfriend is Lucky, the gangster with an awful French accent, which reminded me of one of my most favourite characters Detective Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin). There are no details as such provided for his French connections but I guess the director wanted to bring in the laughter in some ways. :) Well, somehow all the characters manage to assemble in the same house where the glue of the movie is.

The flashbacks in the story make the movie slower and less intriguing. But gradually the story shifts gears upward. The language is slightly open which (in my opinion) has been used to bring about the flavour of comedy amid drama. But the purpose has remained unfulfilled. Yet, there were scenes which made me laugh out loud in the silence of the cinema house.

Altogether, the movie is not a “must watch” but a nice time pass for quenching your thirst of a novelty release. Utt Pataang is one of a kind with its own unique way of keeping the audience involved for three hours.

Rating: 3/5