Mickey Virus: Is virus ko kya naam doon?

Mickey Virus
Starring: Manish Paul, Elli Avram, Manish Choudhary, Varun Badola, Puja Gupta, Nitish Pandey
Rated: 5/10
If you have been one of those couch potatoes getting high on the Manish Paul antics, over-the-top anchoring and general fooling around on the small screen, you might like his 70mm version instantly. If not, and if you are a discerning cinema viewer, you will see the many viruses plaguing this maiden upload by this budding TV star.
First, and just for clarity, this one is not a comedy but a thriller. However, because Mr Paul’s image is highly induced with tomfoolery, director Saurav Verma does the comic relief as starters and gives you a main course of a modern thriller around hackers, dirty money and shadowy figures — from faceless power brokers in the portals of power to law enforcers, the taint is flying all around.
In fact, it is a pretty tight plot which, strangely, loses it without notice and gains it back with equal brevity. Hanging around this kabhi-on, kabhi-off story is Paul who plays the most aalsi, work-shirking hacker we may know. Though he acts decently enough and hops around with a laptop backpack, he doesn’t really make an impact and, sad to say, is no lambi race ka ghodha, at least in Bollywood. TV may be, but not films. His eyes are too big for the big screen and he is too baby-faced to carry his career on looks.
As for his maiden film, he has worked hard and it shows. The story too is not totally limp and manages to grow on you till it starts blundering towards the end. The viruses? It takes too long to set the plot, explodes into real action with a murder but fails to adequately use the hype it creates around rogue hackers. 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, October 27, 2013

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