Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder is a movie based on the sad true story of Kanhaiya Lal’s murder. It tries to convey the story again, but it doesn’t work because of a lot of problems with the movie itself. The movie, which Bharat S. Shrinate directed, got a low 1.5-star rating because its story is hard to follow, its pacing is all over the place, and its production quality is subpar.
The movie is about two hours long and tries to tell a story about the murder, but it gets lost in a jumble of confusing subplots. Bharat Singh, Jayant Sinha, and Amit Jani wrote the script, which is said to be “all over the place,” switching between issues like religion, politics, and even romance without going into enough detail about any of them. The review says that the movie keeps adding additional plots just to drop them suddenly, which makes viewers confused and not attached to the main tragedy.
The film starts out by looking at the growing tensions between Hindus and Muslims over the discovery of a former temple under a mosque. The movie then follows Kanhaiya Lal (Vijay Raaz), a tailor who lives a quiet life. He becomes the target of Nazim (Puneet Vashishth), who is part of a bigger plot to stir up violence between communities. There is also a police inquiry in the story, lead by cop Ishwar Singh (Rajneesh Duggal) and his wife Anjana (Preeti Jhangiani), who is a news anchor. But the assessment says that this complicated web of personalities and events is badly done, saying that “scene-to-scene connectivity is missing.”
The review also criticizes the movie’s technical qualities. The production values are said to be “visibly low,” and around 80% of the movie is excessively dubbed, which makes it feel fragmented overall. The music is uninteresting, and songs are added at random, such two songs about Hindu pilgrimage places that sound more like “tourism ads” than real stories.
The performances also don’t make the movie better. The review says that the enemy, Nazim, is portrayed as a “cartoonish” figure, which makes the story feel more like an episode of Crime Patrol than a serious movie. Vijay Raaz, who is typically a good actor, can’t save the movie from its “headless-chicken script” and bad acting. The review also talks about the movie’s disturbing themes, saying that “the villainization of one religion is as blatant as it gets.”
In conclusion, Udaipur Files is a movie that takes a real, sad event and makes it less powerful by adding too many subplots, flat characters, and a sensationalized style. Instead of a meaningful recounting on screen, the spectator is left with a boring and disconnected experience.