S.M. Balaji Production and Amol Kagne Films’ Email Female (Marathi; A) is the story of a married man, Shantanu Kulkarni (Nikhil Ratnaparkhi), who makes friends with a girl, Monica (Prajakta Shinde), through a friendship website. One day, he goes to meet her in a hotel room but finds her dead body there. When Shantanu’s colleague, Vicky (Kanchan Pagare), seeks legal advice from Shantanu’s lawyer-wife, Prajakta (Dipti Bhagwat), without revealing Shantanu’s identity, she advises the person to surrender before the police.
All hell breaks loose when Prajakta learns that the person whom she had asked to surrender was none other than her own husband. What happens thereafter? Does Prajakta fight Shantanu’s case in court? Who has murdered Monica and why?
Yogesh Jadhav’s story is very ordinary and fails to involve the viewers. Bhakti Jadhav has penned a routine screenplay which does not have really thrilling moments. Therefore, the drama is not half as engrossing as it should’ve been. More specifically, the first half is somewhat light and entertaining but the post-interval part is below the mark. Dialogues (Bhakti Jadhav and Yogesh Jadhav) are okay. There are some double-meaning dialogues which are entertaining.
Nikhil Ratnaparkhi does well as Shantanu Kulkarni but he cannot shoulder an entire film as its central character. Dipti Bhagwat is fair as Shantanu’s wife, Prajakta. Kanchan Pagare’s comedy is enjoyable. Prajakta Shinde is okay in a brief role as Monica. Baby Maithili Patwardhan lends ordinary support as Gargi, daughter of Shantanu and Prajakta. Vikram Gokhale (as Suryakant Subhedar), Kamlesh Sawant (as police inspector Nagare), Shweta Pardeshi (as Julie), Sunil Godbole (as Shantanu’s boss) and Pratiksha Jadhav (as Shantanu’s neighbour, Richa) lend routine support. Vijay Patkar (as the waiter) has been wasted.
Yogesh Jadhav’s direction is alright. Of the songs (music by Shravan Rathod and Abhijeet Narvekar), the item number is good but the other numbers are ordinary. Lyrics are average. Rajesh Bidwe’s choreography of the item song is appealing. Background music (Prakash Nar) is functional. Mayuresh Joshi’s camerawork is fairly good. Nitin Borkar’s sets are okay. Rajesh Rao’s editing leaves something to be desired.
On the whole, Email Female is too ordinary to make any mark at the box-office. Flop.
Released on 17-12-’21 at Plaza (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru August Entertainment. Publicity & opening: poor.