Review of Blood Money
MUMBAI: Kunal (Kunal Khemu) landed a job with a leading diamond company in Cape Town where he gets seduced by the lust of money and power. His fairytale life with Arzoo (Amrita Puri) turns into a nightmare.he is dragged into a diamond trap and pizza delivery boy from Mumbai is exposed to the gory diamond mafia, traders of illegal weapons and cold-blooded criminals. His own boss, Zaveri (Manish Chaudhuri) was the frontrunner in this crime chain. At last he left with two choices – to sell his soul for success, or get ready for a bloodbath.
Kunal Khemu started well with modest beginnings and then turns to a greed-obsessed man. In the second-half his character emerges stronger, with emotions of rage, desperation and revenge well played out. Amrita Puri plays the domesticated wife who silently suffers her husband’s wrongdoings. She gets to interact more with the dining table than with husband.
Manish Choudhary, the big cigar-smoking boss ends every other line with ‘Superb’ (reminding of the villains of old, like Ranjeet) is impressive. Bhatt favourite, Sandip Sikcand, as the scheming ‘blood-brother’, is not. Mia Uyeda with skin to show and not much talent – is the honey-trap Kunal falls for.
The movie has all the toppings of a ‘Bhatt shocker’ – drama, emotion, tragedy and some sex. The bedroom threshold was once again pushed by them with a semi-erotic, steamy scene between two women – every man’s turn-on fantasy. Debutant director, (Vishal S Mahadkar), tells the story well, though some scenes are very stretched, and tries too hard to provoke a reaction. The movies can do much better with a faster pace, more potent dialogues, not to add some more dum in Kunal’s voice, and a better background score – would have had greater impact.
