Chandel India Pvt. Ltd.’s Mid-Day Meeal (UA) is about mid-day meals sponsored by the government in schools. Abhijeet (Anil Singh) is a chef who exposes Thakur (Ranvir Shorey) for supplying sub-standard food in schools. Thakur’s manager (Bhagwan Tiwari) kills Thakur and then poisons the food served to kids in school and blames Abhijeet for the incident when the children have to be hospitalised. Why, Thakur even kidnaps Abhijeet’s girlfriend, Naina (Jahnavi Rao). How Abhijeet saves Naina is shown in the climax.
Rohit A. Chandwaskar has written a silly story and an even sillier screenplay. The drama is so childish that even a kid would not be impressed by it. It lacks emotions and comedy. So boring are the proceedings that they actually test the audience’s patience. Rohit A. Chandwaskar’s dialogues are terribly weak.
Anil Singh is ordinary in the role of Abhijeet. He is poor in dances and action scenes. Jahnavi Rao is unimpressive as Naina. Ranvir Shorey is passable as Thakur. Bhagwan Tiwari is average as Thakur’s manager. Shahnawaz Pradhan does a routine job as Naina’s father. Jhuma Biswas lends ordinary support as Naina’s mother. Ashish Athawale is dull as Ghansu.
Anil Singh Chandel’s direction is terribly weak. Music (Sahil Kulkarni, Rahul Nair, Prateek Gandhi and Navdeep Panchal) is fair. Lyrics (Rohit A. Chandwaskar and Sachin Uramtosh) are below the mark. Choreography (by Anil Singh and Karthik Shetty) is dull. Rahul Nair’s background music is below average. Rajesh Madaan’s camerawork is so-so. Vikas Dansena’s production designing is commonplace. Editing (Birju Rajak) leaves a lot to be desired.
On the whole, Mid-Day Meeal is so poor that it deserves to be out of the cinemas mid-week itself.
Released on 14-10-’22 at Cinepolis Andheri (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru White Lion Entertainment. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released all over.