Kaagaz: Pankaj Tripathi tries to keep a dead script going

Kaagaz (on Zee5); Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Monal Gajjar, Amar Upadhyay, Satish Kaushik; Direction: Satish Kaushik; Rating: * * (two stars)

The merits of Pankaj Tripathi’s new outing are dwarfed by the cliches that the film fails to resist. It is something that prevents Kaagaz from living up to the potential its storyline had promised.

Tripathi, one of Bollywood’s most incredible success stories in recent years, continues with his glorious run as an actor in the OTT domain, this time returning with a starring role in Satish Kaushik’s new directorial. Among the film’s advantages is also the fact that the plot draws from an intriguing true story. The fact that writer-director Kaushik tries giving his tale of blatant corruption a satirical spin would only seem to add to its credence.

Yet, as the minutes roll and the narrative stuffs in everything from an item naach to a Shashikala-prototyped scheming chichi to a very filmi portrait of the bhrasht sarkari office, the film begins to lose its purpose.

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