Genre : Drama/Romance
Year : 2018
Running time : 2 hours
Director : Nitin Kakkar
Cast : Kritika Kamra, Jackky Bhagnani, Prateek Babbar, Suneel Sinha, Neeraj Sood
Kid rating : G
Mitron released the same time as Manmarziyan. It withered under the competition’s fierce genius, and soon made its way onto Amazon Prime, where the husband watched it and deemed it not too bad. Hence I watched it; normally it would never occur to me to watch a Jacky Bhagnani movie.
My prejudice is not without reason. To be a hero, one must possess either :
- a)Looks
- b)Acting skills
- c)Attitude/swagger/personality.
Siddharth Malhotra (Kapoor & Sons) is a prime example of a).
Salman Khan (Dabangg) is the poster boy for c), while Rajkummar Rao (Shahid) succeeds because of b).
Bhagnani lacks all three, so his films are generally non-starters. I did watch “Youngistaan” where he played a young politician, and that role – the one of a mature, restrained man suited him way more than the role of a lazy loser that he plays in this film.
In Mitron, Jai is a carefree young man. He has an engineering degree, but not much motivation or career prospects. His parents therefore think he’s ready for matrimony (??), and he meets Avni. Avni has a mind of her own, so she declines to look upon Jai as suitable husband material. However their association doesn’t end there (much to our detriment).
This film fails because of many reasons, but here’s the chief one. Filmmakers must give the ladies (or everyone!) something to look forward to in a film. It seriously annoys me that while the heroines for the most part, are lovely and lissome, embody surreal yet fantastic character traits, and can act, producers think they can palm off just about anybody as a hero. Also the thinking that a lazy, out-of-shape lout with no redeeming characteristics is a “good” match for a lovely, intelligent young lady leaves me breathless with indignation.
Anyway, the point that I was coming to was this movie is not all bad – the heroine, Kritika Kamra is a find. The supporting cast is very good. The songs are pretty decent. The film also has some rather interesting segue ways, like when Jai and Avni recount their past love lives in a very reasonable manner – none of the hypocritical hai-tauba of double-standard-studded-desi-morality.
I can’t help but think that while I was philosophically repulsed by Mitron and that the predictability tanked the film, any other charismatic hero (like Abhay Deol, Ranbir Kapoor etc.) might have at least made it watchable. As is though, I can’t recommend it.
Kidwise: Clean.
