U Turn directed by Arif Khan is a Zee5 Original which was released on the platform on April 28, 2023 and the film is about traffic accidents. What the creators didn't realize was that the movie could have been an accident itself, where everything about it just stumbled, toppled, and fell apart.
The movie starts with a biker guy talking to someone on a call, and the person he's calling on the other end asks him to come back to a certain place, which he had just left. It seems like a dangerous proposition at first. This is an indication that something will go wrong in the movie, both for the characters and for the viewers.
Director: Arif Khan
Writers: Radhika Anand, Parveez Sheikh, Parvez Sheikh
Stars: Manu Rishi Chadha, Shriidhar Dubey, Alaya F
The man moves the stones that served the purpose of a divider to make a U-turn, an easy way out for him to return to the place he is now going. But the man also forgets to put the stone back in its place. An accident occurs due to stones placed in the middle of the road, and the passenger of the car is killed instantly. This sets the supposedly gritty mood and tonality of the film, which is that the film would have a preachy tone because people need to be told and fed how to be courteous on the road.
A young woman named Radhika Bakshi lives in a fancy apartment in Chandigarh while she works as an intern at a newspaper. It's hard to imagine an inmate being handed long histories to be investigated and questioned by the authorities about the same. This is not how any newspaper works. Living on an intern's salary and managing to have a stable lifestyle is something that is unpleasant from the beginning of the film. Radhika is preparing a report on the deaths that occur from the stones being placed in the middle of the road, and there is no responsibility on the part of the RTO or the police to investigate how the problem can be curbed. Radhika leaves to interview a government official about these incidents, and that is when she finds said government official dead in her apartment. The last person on record to meet him at her home was Radhika, and she is being questioned.
Here at least they have shown the right thing, which is that the police are always in a hurry to arrest the suspect, especially if she is a journalist. Radhika is detained for questioning. The research seems very thin, where one thing leads to another very quickly and a lot of information is extracted quickly. It turns out that the people she contacted are the ones who made the U-turn on the bridge. This PSA-written movie suddenly turns into a serial killer story because the people she contacts end up committing suicide. Radhika claims to have had nothing to do with her murders. All of them committing suicide can't be a coincidence. It's a pattern that needs to be cracked, and the serial killer needs to be caught.
U-Turn goes into speeding mode halfway through the movie; that is, there is no room for anything else to happen. Why is a horror element added to the film? There is no explanation for that. The story suddenly turning into a serial killer saga just makes the movie confusing because at this point this movie has jumped into many genres and doesn't commit to just one. The script is too fast to even handle or understand what exactly is going on or how a case like this could be resolved quickly. The running time of this movie is one hour and just over forty minutes and it seems that the writers and filmmakers are in a hurry to reach the climax of the movie where the serial killer and the motive behind his actions are revealed as well. is revealed. Being a commercial movie, there is a revenge saga attached to it, making the movie unnecessarily melodramatic. Melodrama is something that has its claws buried deep in commercial cinema, but it must be executed believably.
The search for the serial killer ended quickly, which didn't give the audience enough time to absorb the story's big twist. The unexpected serial killer was something no one saw coming, which is arguably a good thing about the movie. Again, pacing was the issue here because the writers, Radhika Anand and Parveez Sheikh, seemed to be in a hurry to close the chapter as soon as possible. As for the movie about accidents and how people need to be careful on the roads, the super fast pace of the movie's narrative is an irony.
The performances of all the actors in the film fade into the background because the film's story and script make the final product far too easy to follow, understand, and finish.
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