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Kidnap – movie review

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Kidnap, movie review

Vikrant Raina (Sanjay Dutt), new worth 51.7 billion dollars – richest Indian in the world. One phone call and his world crashes down around him. His only child, his daughter Sonia has been kidnapped. The kidnapper will only negotiate with Raina. Kidnap movie review…

The kidnapper does not demand a ransom; instead he wants to play a game. A twisted game. It requires Raina to be on the run and complete a series of “tasks”. He must follow the kidnapper’s every order and completes every task successfully, his daughter lives, if he leaves even one task incomplete.

And the kidnapper is watching the every move he makes…

Vikrant Raina (Sanjay Dutt) is a master boardroom strategist who is used to giving orders. Always in control, always one step ahead. Beyond the money, the power, the status is his only daughter Sonia who has been kidnapped. And control has been snatched away from him. His daughter’s life hangs on a balance. Now Raina must dance to someone else’s tune.

The resourceful and intense Kabir (Imran Khan) has a tainted past, a tortured present. And what links him to Vikrant Raina is a mystery. There seems something more sinister behind his plot than simple vengeance. Sonia Raina (Minissha Lamba) is a defiant and headstrong teenager. She is kidnapped and forced to watch from afar as her father desperately tries to rescue her. Her 18th birthday is just a month away but she becomes an adult much before. As she learns more about her father whom she loves as well as more about the man who holds her captive.

There are times when we take decisions and certain actions. These cold affect the entire lives of people who are in some way connected to the situation and the circumstances which led us to make that decision.

Vikrant Raina takes one such decision in a moment of extreme rage when his 8 year old daughter is facing a life and death situation. He couldn’t imagine how that one decision would affect the 14 year old Kabir Sharma’s life. Kabir commits an act that could be legally termed as a crime, but it was not for his personal greed. But Raina labels him as a ‘criminal’ and then this teenaged boy has to go through the ordeals in a correction house.

Years later, a grown up Kabir masteminds a series of events and circumstances that force Raina to commit crimes. And then Kabir asks Raina the question: “Does commiting a crime make you a criminal”?

Sanju Baba impresses as the tycoon and then wonderfully as the caring father. Imran Khan as the boyish looking kidnapper looks promising. Minisha Lamba is apt in her role of a spoilt brat who later on thinks and acts like a responsible lady. Vidya Malavade of Chak De India fame is her mother who looks as glamorous as her.

Sanjay Gadhvi the director of Kidnap tackles this question without taking any sides and objectively takes the viewer through the story. Thankfully, there isn’t any attempt to preach any philosophy in this thriller which has some slick cinematography and awesome stunts in the action scenes in the second half.
Cast of Kidnap:
Vikrant Raina – Sanjay Dutt
Kabir – Imran Khan
Sonia Raina – Minissha Lamba
Mallika Raina – Vidya Malvade
Young Kabir – Parth Dave
Detective – Rahul Dev

Crew of Kidnap:
Director – Sanjay Gadhvi
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues – Shibani Bathija, Sanjay Gadhvi
Cinematography – Bobby Singh
Film Editing – Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Production Design – Sadashiv Athule, Nitesh Mogre, Rajesh Sharma
Assistant Directors – Vijayvargiya Anshul, Jha Deepti, Jason Menezes Jude, Awasthi Yatharth
Additional Dialogues – Vijayvargiya Anshul, Awasthi Yatharth
Visual Effects – Rahul Galwankar
Stunt Double for Imran khan – Dean Alexandrou
Stunt Double:for Sanjay Dutt – Terry Kvasnik
Sound Department – Amit Ahire, Leslie Fernandes
Makeup – Mike H.G. Bates, Ayesha DeVitre, Mike Stringer
Song Programming Arranger – Sandeep Shirodkar
Kidnap, movie review