Yeshvi Productions’ Kandy Twist – The Crime Story (A) is a thriller.
Rocky (Akshay Kharodia) and Meet (Pari Choudhary) are in love. But Rocky soon gets attracted to Tina (Divyaa Singh) who comes to stay in his neighbourhood with John. It’s not long before Rocky and Tina are in bed. John sees the two in a compromising position in his bungalow and beats up Rocky who faints. When Rocky regains consciousness, he sees John lying dead.
Tina cooks up a story and almost coaxes Rocky to dispose of the body of John. Police inspector Rana (Adi Irani) smells a rat in the investigation of John’s murder case. Rocky is put behind bars as the prime suspect. But who actually killed John? And why?
It emerges that John had a life insurance policy of Rs. 10 crore. LIC investigating officer Neelam Rastogi (Arti Joshi) seeks the help of police inspector Rana before settling the claim made by Tina. Is Rana able to solve the murder mystery? Is Rocky the murderer? Or is Rocky being framed?
Shiva Rindan’s story is clichéd and has not even a hint of freshness. Such stories have been seen in a number of earlier films. M. Salim’s screenplay is hackneyed as everything in the drama is predictable. There are several scenes which are so convoluted that the viewers lose patience. Dialogues, penned by M. Salim, are routine.
Akshay Kharodia does an ordinary job as Rocky. Divyaa Singh hardly impresses in the role of Tina. Arti Joshi lends dull support as LIC officer Neelam Rastogi. Adi Irani is alright as police inspector Rana. Pari Choudhary is okay as Meet. Ashish Mishra (as Rocky’s father), Nirmal Guneria (as Harry) and Dinero Ash (as police officer Lele) provide dull support.
Shiva Rindan’s direction is very weak. Music (by Dinero Ash and Greg John) and lyrics (Dinero Ash, Deepika Sejwal and Neetu Panday Kranti) are nothing to shout about. Ishak Khan’s choreography doesn’t deserve separate mention. Gyan Gautam’s camerawork is dull. Other technical aspects like editing and art direction are weak.
On the whole, Kandy Twist – The Crime Story is a flop show.
Released on 27-9-’19 at Imperial (daily 4 shows) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Indian Talkiss. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released in all over. Opening was weak everywhere.