Bombairiya

Bombairiya Story: Set in Mumbai, the film traces a crazy day in the life of Meghna ( Radhika Apte ), a Public Relations manager. An unlikely incident makes her run into two strangers ( Akshay Oberoi and Siddhant Kapoor ). Under mysterious circumstances, the three must stick around for each other. What makes them do this, forms the story.

Bombairiya Review: A crime is waiting to happen and the three must race against time to avert it. Who are the bad guys and what is their nefarious motive? What seems like an interesting premise at the beginning loses steam in no time. Bombairiya, a comedy of errors, feels like a pointless exercise that desperately craves for your attention.

It deliberately withholds information, backstories and character introductions to infuse suspense in the story. However, the chaos and confusion gets way too loud, silly and futile over time for you to be engaged in it. The randomness in the execution leaves a lot unexplained and fails to evoke curiosity or a sense of urgency that the story ideally expects you to.

While the actors do a decent job, lackluster writing does little for you to be invested in their fear, struggle or aspirations. Dark comedy is a tough genre to attempt and Pia Sukanya’s non-linear narrative could have been effective, if it wasn’t for the story’s unconvincing ‘cause’. They all do what they do for a noble reason and that isn’t provocative enough.

To sum it up, this one’s a confused, chaotic mess that lacks humour and a clear thought process of what it hoped to achieve. Complicated is not always clever. Bombairiya tries way too hard to lure you into solving the jigsaw puzzle that it hastily creates. After a point, the series of forced mishaps and coincidences drain your patience and ability to decode the reason behind the madness.

Like Meghna, we all have that one bad day that we deeply despise. You say shit happens and move on. The makers of the film should do the same.