Manish Chaudhary as the nasty piece of work is passable. theatre actor Sandip Sikand as the chief baddyвЂ™s busybody brother, overacts outrageously. Blood Money is like old wine in a new bottle and can be easily given a miss. Thankfully, the leading actors, Kunal Khemu, Amrita Puri and Manish Chaudhari rise above the corny writing and deliver performances that make Blood Money a better film. WhatвЂ™s irritating about the film though is the trite manner in which the actressвЂ™ child-like countenance and minimal makeup are seemingly being used as a metaphor for the middle-class innocence of the lead coupleвЂ™s background, to be contrasted with the situation that theyвЂ™re currently mired in. Yet, Blood Money is watchable between ad breaks when it shows up on TV. Then, you don't know whether to laugh at the makers or yourself for allowing yourself hope. But, it is equally bad when the film takes you down with it in a spiral of preposterous stupidity. It's always a great feeling to get pulled into enjoying a film that you had very little hope from. I wonder how it'd work out if the same events played out in the even pace that the film ran with thus far.

It immediately becomes material you'll laugh at. It suddenly gives birth to twists and turns. From a calm potential for brilliant mind games between two intelligent people, it suddenly becomes an action film. The part where the writers got bored with their job. That brings me to the last half hour of the film. While Sandiip and Nandini overacted, thus were annoying, Teeshay and Karan Mehra might have shown us their talent if they had something more to dig their heels into. ( Sandiip Sikcand) to Sean ( Teeshay) to Nandini (Name?) to to the cop ( Karan Mehra) - all seemed mere pawns for the writer to go from point A to point B in the film. The handful other characters though added nothing to the plot. He too gave people a chance before deciding that they needed to be put away.

All of them had a shade of gray, even the villain, Zaveri/Zakaria. Oh well.ДЄnd yet, I enjoyed how these three characters were written. They killed my theory that a pet word/phrase given to a character could work if it were short and from everyday language. Not to mention the annoying pet word assigned to him. His stiff dialogue delivery take away from the character, including the said scenes itself. The only reason Manish Chaudhary caused any scare that a villain ought to, was because of the opening sequence. When her character, Arzoo did have the chance to not sulk, Amrita ended up over-enacting. Amrita Puri, though not quite the mannequin she is imagined as in one of the scenes, is not the most emotive either. While the feminists can be disgusted with the portrayal of a housewife abroad, I liked the way she was shown dependent on her husband in all ways but was the only support he could have is in the strange land. The rest of the cast though, are as superficial as can be. You see when he's wrong too, but you know he just might mend his ways. The audience understands and empathizes with him as they see that his dilemma never leaves him.

Kunal Khemu does a fine job too of showing both his ambition and disappointment with himself. The one business deal shown in detail to express Kunal's ( Kunal Khemu) aptitude, the way an honest man can get sucked into the unethical because of his ambition, the way he begins justifying his lapses with some excuse or the other. In fact, after a while, I noticed that I had forgotten all about taking notes and just wanted to watch what's going on. I didn't expect a film with Kunal Khemu and Amrita Puri to get my complete attention for even a bit. That's when I started getting pulled in, despite the annoyingly distracting inane songs. Not too often do such logical things happen in Hindi films - a husband and wife who talk to each other about their insecurities. Especially since, soon enough, you have the wife not only have doubts about their good fortune but voice them too. We have learnt to get over such discrepancies real quick. After an intense and effective opening sequence, Blood Money falls into the regular zone of 'whatever' - things like, a fresh MBA gets a huge bungalow as a perk in South Africa a not-so-warm bosses give a settling-in allowance.

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