Language - Hindi/English
Director - Anu Menon
Run Time - 1 hour, 38 minutes
Genre - Drama
Starring - Kalki Koechlin and Naseeruddin Shah
Waiting starts off quite nicely, it seems to be on of those feel good movies where everything shall go right at the end. But no, it follows the title and keeps us waiting until the end for a plot to develop.
The idea and the concept are right there, also you have two of industries best actors in Kalki Koechlin and Naseeruddin Shah, but the execution is horrible and the movie drags on without any significant story development and thus, seems 'half-cooked',
The movie pivots around two protagonists, Tara Deshpande [Koechlin], a fierce, young and abrasive woman who's husband [cameo by Arjun Mathur] has suffered an accident. On the other side, we have Shiv Natraj [Shah], a calm and composed retired professor who's wife has been in a coma for the past 8 months. The two play the waiting game; hoping their respective partners shall come out of the coma.
In any story, there are 5 parts namely the exposition, the rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.
Sadly, this movie follows a straight line, with hardly any ups and downs. Thus, even with a beautiful and fresh topic, and the phenomenal chemistry between our two leads, the film leaves us with the feeling of 'meh'
Also, there were unecessary flashbacks which were showing the same scenes repeatdely, thus irritating the audience further.
In all, quite an avoidable movie.
My Rating - 6.4/10
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