‘MAIN ZAROOR AAUNGA’ | 28 September, 2019

Ashirwad Cinevision Pvt. Ltd. and Ahilya Production’s Main Zaroor Aaunga (A) is a suspense drama.

Yash Malhotra (Arbaaz Khan) is a rich businessman who lives in Switzerland and has a lot of property. He falls in love with a model, Lisa (Aindrita Ray). While Yash wants a child, Lisa is too career-oriented to think of pregnancy. This creates a rift in their relationship. Lisa has a boyfriend, Peter (Vikas Verma), in whom she confides.

One day, Yash sees Lisa and Peter in bed together. A fight ensues between Yash and Peter. Yash is killed in the fight. Scared, Peter and Lisa approach Lobo to bury the body of Yash. Having done that, they approach a locksmith to make a duplicate key for Yash’s safe deposit locker. They also ask real estate broker Rajesh to help them sell off Yash’s properties. The plan is that after selling off the properties, Lisa and Peter would escape to India with all Yash’s movable property like jewellery etc.

But police inspector Shiv (Govind Namdev) pours water on their plans. He informs them that all the three persons they had approached after Yash’s death, viz. grave digger Lobo, the locksmith, and real estate broker Rajesh had died under mysterious circumstances. He takes away the passports of Lisa, Peter as also the house help, Tiwari (Hemant Pandey), so that none of them can run away from Switzerland.

As if this is not bad enough, Lisa and Peter feel that Yash is alive as they believe, they can see him. One day, an exasperated Peter decides to escape to India. He has a fight with Lisa who does not approve of his plans to ditch her and leave her in the lurch. Peter accidentally dies in the fight. A petrified Lisa tries to get rid of Peter’s body just like she had gotten rid of Yash’s body.

Does Lisa succeed in discarding Peter’s corpse? Does she go scot free? Is Yash really alive?

M. Salim’s story is hackneyed and replete with clichés. His screenplay is so boring and so dull that it fails to engage the audience. In fact, the screenplay moves on such a predictable path that the viewers don’t have any difficulty in guessing what’s next in the drama. M. Salim’s dialogues are as dull as the story and screenplay.

Arbaaz Khan does an average job as Yash Malhotra. Aindrita Ray looks ordinary and makes a routine debut in Hindi cinema, in the role of Lisa. Vikas Verma is fair as Peter. Govind Namdev provides decent support as police inspector Shiv. Hemant Pandey is average as house help Tiwari. Vineet Verma, Ali Shah and Jeba Baig lend dull support. Others barely pass muster.

Chandrakant Singh’s direction is ordinary. Music (Rajendra Shiv, Sandeep Batra and Sughat Dhanvijay) is functional. Lyrics (by Sughat Dhanvijay, Abhendra Kumar Upadhyay and Azeem Shirazi) are ordinary. Firoz Abdullah’s choreography is nothing to rave about. Dharma Vish’s background music is alright. Johny Lal’s camerawork is beautiful, just as the locales are. Hanif Shaikh’s action and stunt scenes hardly afford thrill. Ashish Gaikar’s editing leaves something to be desired.

On the whole, Main Zaroor Aaunga may have a definitiveness in its title but what’s even more definite is that it will be rejected by the paying public because it’s a poor show all the  way.

Released on 27-9-’19 at Maxus Andheri (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Rimpy Art International. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released all over. Opening was weak everywhere.