Young hero, Vishwak Sen was one of the most promising talents in the film industry. But of late, he had been doing commercial films that haven’t been working. He has now come up with a new film titled Laila where he plays a female role. Let’s see what the film offers.
Story: Sonu Model(Vishwak) operates a famous beauty parlour in the old city of Hyderabad. One day, he comes across a customer who happens to take the name of his parlour and commercialise it. This leads to Sonu becoming Laila with a big plan behind him. What’s the plan? How does becoming Laila help his case? Can Laila get back what she wants?
What About on screen talents?
Vishwak has tried something out of the ordinary with this film. It takes a lot of guts and confidence to play a female character at this point in his career. In terms of versatility, he needs to be appreciated.
There’s little scope for Bollywood actress Akanksha Sharma to emote as a heroine in this film. She is confined to songs. Abhimanyu Singh as the bad guy is alright. Babloo Prithvi gets wasted with a shabby character. There isn’t much to say about the rest of the cast.
What about off screen talents?
Director Ram Narayan picks a very clicked script and presents it in an even duller manner. There’s absolutely no freshness in terms of core plot or the screenplay. Every scene looks repetitive and shallow.
There are a couple of breezy episodes in the first half where the parlour comedy works out. Sonu Model track brings a few laughs. This is about it. The rest is a shambolic ride that keeps going on and on.
Music is alright, so to speak. The beach song has a funky vibe and it is aesthetically good with surplus skin show from heroine Akanksha. Visuals are good and so are the making values.
The Laila transition track and the consequent comedy and drama generation is done very poorly. This idea might have sounded exciting on paper to Vishwak but he needed more panache to make a film like this with a capable director.
What’s Hot?
- Vishwak Sen performance
- 2 comedy bits in first half
What’s Not?
- Shallow writing
- Tiresome narration
- Illogical and incoherent screenplay
Verdict: Laila might score Vishwak some brownie points for his efforts for versatility. But the screenplay and presentation undoes his work. Director Ram Narayan needed to exercise more caution.
Telugubulletin.com Rating: 2/5