Thriller with no frills, no routine Hindi cinema drama, no songs, just pure thrill, emotion, and excitement with a pinch of social dilemma. This is how I sum up THE BUCKINGHAM MURDERS.
The movie starts in the suburbs of Buckingham, where a mother (Kareena), who is also a cop, lost her young son in a street rage incident. She is in a state of loss and takes a transfer, as she feels suffocated staying in the same town where her child was killed. As she comes to the new town and reports to her new police station, she is handed over a case of a missing Indian child. Initially, she refuses, but her boss insists that work is work and her personal tragedy should never come in the way of her job. She gets into the case with a team that is working on it with motives. With so many twists and turns, this movie grips and thrills.
A Hansal Mehta movie is why I initially went to see it, and I was not even a bit disappointed. He knows his art and brings the best out of his characters. Kareena Kapoor Khan, in her new avatar out of her Bebo image, proves that acting is in her DNA. The fourth generation of the Prithviraj Kapoor genes means acting khoon mein hai... she is so much a cop grieving but on duty... nowhere is she Kareena. I was surprised to see MasterChef Ranveer Brar as such a nice actor. The rest of the cast too lends robust support.
In one of the scenes in a conversation, Kareena tells another officer that people say with time the grief heals, to which he replies, "As time passes, the grief of our own worsens." So true, as we can feel all through the movie the sadness in Kareena's eyes because of the death of her young kids' death. That is the worst kind of grief when a parent has to grieve their children's demise, the saddest grief. The divide between the religions is so rooted by years of planned rifts created is so subtly shown in the movie that it pinches and also shows how this divide is not deep-rooted, as in a scene when gurbani is being narrated is being heard by Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and self in the same room. The divide is superficial, but emotions are the same.
If you like the hansal mehta kind of screenplay with no frills but touching the right mood and chords. This movie will be thoroughly touch your mind and heart.
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