Raat Akeli Hai

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At 2hrs 29mins,the movie was definitely too long.The makers should have sliced off at least 30 minutes the film.At best everything about the movie was average.

The plot features a Kanpur cop who investigates the brutal murder of a politician from an upper-class but suspenseful family.The Genre is the same old, same old murder mystery. The cop develops an attraction towards the prime suspect, Radha (played by Radhika Apte) and her dusky-skinned 'outsider' status. Also this hero is surprised as he doesn't expect a fragile woman to execute a murder. Circumstances forces the cop's gaze to evolve. The focus is on how the cop's understanding of power and masculinity changes, matures to match the changing world outside.Slowly but steadily, we sense the broadening of Jatil's mental bandwidth. The way Jatil sees justice becomes inextricably linked to the way he sees women. He wants to fight a system, but for that he is actually fighting men like himself. Quite mind numbing actually Unless you are an hardcore Nawaz fan, you could skip it altogether,

Premise of the movie is good. Acting is mainly very good specially from Nawaz But, the writing and direction is where the film loses it. Being a murder mystery, it plays out less like a murder mystery but, more like a policeman who is just running around threatening people and having an affair with one of the suspects. There is no systematic approach to the investigation. Not once the crime scene is shown in full clarity. The investigator doesn't even search the house properly for any clues. He is just talking to people of the house and delivering great dialogues. How the investigator reaches his conclusion is also not very clear. Just looks like a bunch of scenes put together, and out of the blue he has it all figured out. Poorly written murder mystery