Rush: Made in quite a rush

Rush

Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Neha Dhupia, Sagarika Ghatge, Aditya Pancholi

At: DT Cinema & others

Rated: 3/10

First and foremost, the alleged Zee TV extortion scam notwith-standing, the visual media is still eons away from committing murders, rapes and arson merely to create breaking news. Yes, they are still irritatingly fixated on Breaking News but all they do for now is fall into a farcical coverage of events which should be pushed into capsules or be ignored.

So, to see Emraan Hashmi as Editor-in-Chief of a 24-hour crime channel, anchoring a show which reaches the crime spot before any other channel — always — is far-fetched. As is the theme that selling news has become like selling illegal arms and ammunition.

As a journalist, and sans a single kiss in any direction, Hashmi struggles to make his mark here. Not so much because of his less than potent acting skills but because the script is lean, not at all mean, and has a tendency to sag a bit too often.

Neha Dhupia looks in her tight business suits but fails to make any lasting impact due as her role is rather linear and unfleshed. As her boss Aditya Panscholi’s partner in crime, and as a woman who believes relationships should change like the images on TV, she too struggles to give depth to her character, or should we say lack of it on the screen.

Sagarika Ghatge looks breezy and makes somewhat of a splash with her simmering looks but that’s all she does in the film where she plays Hashmi’s painter live-in girlfriend. After Chak De India, this was her next big footage venture but then, with not too much to say or propel in the movie, she loses steam as a bystander. Rush could have been a reality bite, because many more things much more real assail our news channels. It’s the over-the-top imagination of crime that takes away from the effort. And, it is a movie made in a needless kind of rush.

Source: Published in Sunday Pioneer, October 28, 2012