Kathha Pictures, Blue Butterfly Films and Vipin Agnihotri Films’ Do Patti is a romantic thriller. Saumya (Kriti Sanon) and Shailee (Kriti Sanon) are twins. Saumya is married to Dhruv Sood (Shaheer Sheikh) who is an abusive husband. He beats Saumya under the slightest pretext. Shailee loves Dhruv and although Dhruv had wanted to marry Shailee, his father had opted for the more sober Saumya for him. Shailee still has feelings for Dhruv.
Police inspector Vidya Jyoti (Kajol) investigates the domestic violence case although there is no formal complaint. Since Vidya is dead against domestic violence, she takes it upon herself to have Dhruv punished for his deeds.
But domestic violence apart, Saumya one day tells the police that Dhruv had tried to kill her while the two had gone paragliding. What’s worse for Dhruv is that the ‘attempt to murder’ was witnessed by several people present there. Vidya Jyoti, who is also a lawyer, argues Saumya’s case and gets Dhruv punished for his crimes of attempt to murder and domestic violence. After winning the case, Vidya Jyoti feels that it was too easy to be true. That’s when she gets to know some disturbing facts. What were they? Was Dhruv guilty of domestic violence? Was he guilty of attempting to murder wife Saumya?
Kanika Dhillon has written a convoluted story and screenplay, which have some weird and unpalatable twists. For one, although the reason for Shailee trying to woo Dhruv has been explained, it doesn’t appeal to the audience as everything that happens is possible even without her affair with Dhruv. The angle of attempt to murder also does not sit too well with the viewers because at the end of the day, getting a person punished for a crime is good enough even without trying to get more justice than is necessary. Several turns and twists in the drama seem contrived. The non-stop chatter (of random people talking in the background in every scene) is very irritating to the ears. Kanika Dhillon’s dialogues are fairly nice.
Kajol does well as police inspector and lawyer Vidya Jyoti. Kriti Sanon is impactful as both, Saumya and Shailee. She looks glamorous too. Shaheer Sheikh does a fair job as Dhruv Sood. Tanvi Azmi makes her mark in the role of Maaji. Brijendra Kala makes a fine impression as Katoch. Vivek Mushran is okay as Deepak. Prachee Shah Pandya lends good support as Shobhana Pundir. Rohit Tiwari is alright as Niren. Chittaranjan Tripathy is very natural as lawyer Kumar. Shasta Prashant Gajbhare (as baby Saumya) and Abhidnya Prashant Gajbhare (as baby Shailee) do well. Manoj Bakshi is fair in the role of Tyagi. Mohit Chauhan has his moments as Prithvi Singh Sood. Sohaila Kapur is average as Justice Aruna Goel. Vriddhi Jain (as young Saumya) and Vrishti Jain (as young Shailee) are impressive. Danish Kalra (as Ranvir), Naveen Verma (as Sunny), Usha Subramaniam Saksena (as Shanti Sood), Pankaj Saraswat (as Lalit Garg), Darius Chinoy (as Justice Saxena) and Zeba Kausar (as Sheetal Devi) lend routine support. Others do as desired.
Shashanka Chaturvedi’s direction is so-so, limited as it is by a not-so-engaging script. Sachet Parampara and Tanishk Bagchi’s music is average. Lyrics are alright. Anurag Saikia’s background music is impactful. Mart Ratassepp’s cinematography is appealing. Ian Stock’s action and stunt scenes are quite thrilling. Editing (by Naman Arora and Hemal Kothari) could’ve been sharper.
On the whole, Do Patti is an ordinary fare.
Released on 25-10-’24 on Netflix.