Sajini Shinde Ka Viral Video Review: Radhika Madan and Nimrat Kaur starrer fails to engage

SAJINI SHINDE KA VIRAL VIDEO

Director- Mikhil Musale

Cast- Nimrat Kaur, Radhika Madan, Bhagyashree, Subodh Bhave, Sumeet Vyas and Chinmay Mandlekar

Platform of Release- Theatres

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By Jyothi Venkatesh

Sajini Shinde (Radhika Madan), a young physics teacher, goes missing soon after an explicit video featuring her dancing with half-naked men is leaked online. The drama explores the events that occur before and after the fateful day. Though the poor girl is simply just celebrating her birthday, as the video becomes viral, she faces abject public humiliation and harsh scrutiny from the middle-class society. Mikhil Musale had directed the National Award-winning Gujarati film Wrong Side Raju.

She goes missing and she is presumed to be dead, and the case is handed over to Inspector Bela Barud.  Investigator Bela (Nimrat Kaur), takes on the case and begins probing various aspects and suspects of the case, including Sajini’s fiancé Siddhant (Soham Majumdar), school-affiliated staff members, and even her family members.

Though there are as many as four writers here- Mikhil Musale, Parinda Joshi, Anu Singh Choudhary, Kshitij Patwardhan, and just as many genres stuffed into one film, the narrative’s inability and the minus point is that it wants to be a comedy as well as a thriller and just not in a position to decide its own tune.

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As far as the performances are concerned, among the actors, as a diligent and no-nonsense investigating officer, Nimrat Kaur steals the show. Sumeet Vyas has pretty much been wasted in the role of a lawyer and Radhika Madan is leaving an impact but can surely do better, especially after a fiery debut in Patakha five years ago. While Subodh Bhave fits in the role of the father of the missing Sajni effectively, Chinmay Mandlekar enlivens the character that he plays with a lot of humor. Bhagyashree plays a slightly negative role for a change effectively.

The film sets out to emphasize the importance of fact-checking and refraining from passing judgments or engaging in mindless gossip that can destroy lives and is able to portray the helplessness and despair that individuals face when their private lives are exposed in public, particularly in the age of social media.

To sum up, Sajni Shinde Ki Viral Video, for a film pegged as a suspense thriller, the screenplay and the writing could have been tighter and the execution a tad better, as the film fails to engage the viewer with far too many characters, which set out to dilute the cohesiveness of the whodunit.