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An honest-to-a-fault, maths-whizz ticket collector gets embroiled, unwittingly, in the doings of a greedy banker: this one-line premise may have sounded exciting on paper, but the execution comes off contrived and clunky.
Madhavan plays Radhe Mohan Sharma, who brings his affable self and a razor sharp brain to his job, whose first encounter with a comely cop (Kirti Kulhari) isn’t exactly a meet-cute. She rebuffs his offer of an orange bought from a fruit-seller at the station: ‘main chori kiye santare nahin khati’, she says.
Turns out, the two of them have a bit of past: she, a police inspector not very good at numbers, knows it; he, a single parent to a young boy, doesn’t, but they find themselves chatting about this and that, as they make their way into the future which holds promise.
Hisaab Barabar movie trailer:
If Hisaab Barabar had built on this unlikely-couple strand– Madhavan looks older than he should for his role, but he is never unwatchable– we nay have had a passable rom com on our hands. But the film bungs in Neil Nitin Mukesh’s flamboyant bank owner Mickey Mehta who has a gigantic scam up his sleeve; and things go south whenever he shows up. If ever there was a spot for a cartoonish baddie, Mehta would fit the bill nicely.
This David-Goliath fight, between an ‘aam aadmi’ and a ‘filthy rich capitalist’, has a couple of characters who turn up only for unfunny laughs, a neta (Manu Rishi) who only wants to count his crores, and a lead pair let down by the general proceedings.
Hisaab Barabar movie cast: R Madhavan, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Kirti Kulhari, Manu Rishi
Hisaab Barabar movie director: Ashwani Dhir
Hisaab Barabar movie rating: 1.5 stars
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