Abhinay Deo’s putative film noir is a wishy-washy comedy thriller that sucks your brain into a puzzle of sub-plots you wouldn’t want to solve. Even a power lift by its main man, Irrfan Khan, only drags Blackmail to its nugatory conclusion, but not before you’ve acquainted yourself thoroughly with the location of the exit door. The premise of the film plays out in its first act and the revelations thereafter are of little consequence.
The characters, though, are fleshed out to suit the genre. Dev Bakshi (Irrfan) is a naïve man in a one-sided marriage. He idles ...
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First Published: Fri, April 06 2018. 21:56 IST
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