404 - Movie Review

It's an average movie only with a relatively new concept for bollywood. The plot somewhere, for me, was similar to 'Shutter Island'. The biggest problem with the movie is its pace, it's damn slow to be termed as a good thriller, or in other words, we can say, this could have been a really good one if it was a Short Movie. The other problem is its budget, there are hardly 10-15 students we can see in the whole movie, except a few class scenes, the place which is actually shown as a College, where there are supposed to be at least 100 students, which leads us to find more and more students around the lead characters while Abhimanyu is searching for Gaurav. 


Good things? yes, there are plenty of good things also, main one being performances. Out of all, Imaad Shah wins the tag of best performer of the movie, excellent. Another good thing about the movie is, there is no song added to the movie.


Screenplay was weak, and too ordinary. For example, in pre-climax scene, a dialogue is spoken, "Uske sath koi safe nahin hain" and you wait for something to happen, any viewer mind will think some murder gonna happen after listening to that dialogue for sure, but no, nothing like dat happens, instead, very ordinarily, the secret unfolds, which is quite expected. But yea, the last scene of the movie is good, really good, but as said above, it could have been the best thing the director could have done to the climax of a Short Movie. 


Most of the scenes in the movie look hurriedly inserted, where you can pick any scene from anywhere, and put it at some other place, and yet, there wont be any difference in the movie. 


This genre excites me like hell, but this movie has hardly some of them, or maybe there are none?


Overall, i wont term it as a bad movie, being one of a lot of few ones, this one surely is not a movie to be neglected, must be given a chance for sure, despite a fact that it disappoints, because of performances, and a few more reasons.


Movie: 2.5/5 [By the 70mm Raju Rastogi - Nilay Shah]


Additional Review with love by the70mm Farhan

After watching this movie...

I must say its really made very well..movie reminded me of Hollywood hits like Shutter Island, A Beautiful Mind etc.

Performances are very good. Imad shah is best as always...

New comer rajvvir arora has also done very well & in last, Nishikant kamat...what can i say man... he stills the whole show...

Story was quite predictable for me...but its execution was very good...

My rating...3.45/5

Must watch for movie lovers...