A philandering film maker suffering from a writer's block uses his flings with a gorgeous lady to devise his next movie script - Roy's premise , which borrows amply from the recently released "Happy Ending" and the 2005 dud "Shabd", is as terribly misplaced as director Vikram Jeet Singh's positioning of it into mainstream cinema.
An overdose of pre-release hype, the presence of Ranbir Kapoor and peppy music chart-busters did generate a lot of euphoria but all those things go for a toss after you invest a few minutes into Roy.So we have Kabir(Arjun Rampal),a play-boyish director who gets smitten by the ravishing arty filmmaker, Ayesha(Jacqueline)and romance blossoms in the exotic locales of Malaysia. Kabir is deeply fascinated by an international art thief famous for his robberies, Roy(Ranbir Kapoor) and writes scripts basing on his thefts. As Roy heads to Malaysia for his next exploit , there is a deep entwine of reality with fiction, which gets more confusing with the entry of Ayesha's look alike, Tia(Jacqueline, Oh no - not again!)
As the film progresses with an insufferable pace,Roy loses the steam to sustain the interest.Except offering some delight to our visual senses,it doesn't hit any other positive notes.Vikram Jeet's idea appears to be too abstract , beyond the assimilating capacity of the Indian audience.Even Ranbir, with a perennial sullen face,who is supposedly cast in a 'dynamic role' cant salvage the film from getting derailed. It is a tedious drama which has only style and not an iota of substance.And,that style unwraps itself so lazily that it turns out to be a plodding bore. Arjun Rampal,with his brooding looks, mutters deep-rooted philosophical dialogues with the Fedora 'thinking' cap ON - "You discover the real silences in the noises of life"! even sample this - " I don't drink alone, that might make me feel as an alcoholic".Jacqueline who dons two avatars in the film looks sensuous but both her characters were half-baked. Anupam Kher is wasted in a cameo, and it really baffled me what made him do that part.Shernaz Patel and Rajit Kapoor do adequate justice to their roles.
Roy could have been an interesting film if it had moments of intrigue. A lesser amount of the director's self-indulgence and the much needed steroid of suspenseful execution could have catapulted the film to good heights. But it fails miserably.
An overdose of pre-release hype, the presence of Ranbir Kapoor and peppy music chart-busters did generate a lot of euphoria but all those things go for a toss after you invest a few minutes into Roy.So we have Kabir(Arjun Rampal),a play-boyish director who gets smitten by the ravishing arty filmmaker, Ayesha(Jacqueline)and romance blossoms in the exotic locales of Malaysia. Kabir is deeply fascinated by an international art thief famous for his robberies, Roy(Ranbir Kapoor) and writes scripts basing on his thefts. As Roy heads to Malaysia for his next exploit , there is a deep entwine of reality with fiction, which gets more confusing with the entry of Ayesha's look alike, Tia(Jacqueline, Oh no - not again!)
As the film progresses with an insufferable pace,Roy loses the steam to sustain the interest.Except offering some delight to our visual senses,it doesn't hit any other positive notes.Vikram Jeet's idea appears to be too abstract , beyond the assimilating capacity of the Indian audience.Even Ranbir, with a perennial sullen face,who is supposedly cast in a 'dynamic role' cant salvage the film from getting derailed. It is a tedious drama which has only style and not an iota of substance.And,that style unwraps itself so lazily that it turns out to be a plodding bore. Arjun Rampal,with his brooding looks, mutters deep-rooted philosophical dialogues with the Fedora 'thinking' cap ON - "You discover the real silences in the noises of life"! even sample this - " I don't drink alone, that might make me feel as an alcoholic".Jacqueline who dons two avatars in the film looks sensuous but both her characters were half-baked. Anupam Kher is wasted in a cameo, and it really baffled me what made him do that part.Shernaz Patel and Rajit Kapoor do adequate justice to their roles.
Roy could have been an interesting film if it had moments of intrigue. A lesser amount of the director's self-indulgence and the much needed steroid of suspenseful execution could have catapulted the film to good heights. But it fails miserably.
