The Half Baked Trickery of Aiyaary Is Not Enough to Satisfy the Common Man’s Fan
By Avik Basak It was back in 2008, when a newcomer director, Neeraj Pandey generated an instant fan following for himself by bringing us A Wednesday! , a movie about the common man’s wrath against terror. He followed it up with another interesting film, Special 26 , a heist film that pits a group of common men against corruption. But since then, the curve on Neeraj’s graph has seen a significant decline. If his third film, Baby suffered from some bad executions, his last project, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story , the biopic on the former Indian cricket captain, drops off important events in the cricketer’s life that needed to be shown. Neeraj’s latest Aiyaary is not an exception to this trend. The movie starts off greatly, knocking on all the right doors but by the time it reaches its second half, it seems to lose its touch. Although, it recovers somewhat before it concludes that can be enough to keep you on the edge of your seat but it will not make you think which it ...