There were high expectations from Roy, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Jacqueline Fernandez. Vikramjit Singh, making his directorial debut, promised a romantic thriller and an off-the-beaten-track story. Did he deliver?
This is a film that has the veneer of a serious and intelligent thriller but is yet another potboiler along the lines of the Neil Nitin Mukesh classic Aa Dekhein Zara. Singh takes things a bit too seriously, while still trying to pander to the mainstream audience. That way ironically the film exudes the dual nature of the people in the film, and fails to deliver. Read more
Roy is a painful trudge through acres of pretentious hollowness. Neither the two dapper leading actors nor an eager-to-please heroine in a double role can rescue the film from its inexorable downhill trundle. Read more
Our verdict
We’ve come to expect a great deal from Ranbir Kapoor. What’s more debutant director Vikramjit Singh cast him in a romantic thriller with a seemingly intriguing plot. But ‘slow’, ‘boring’, ‘painful’, ‘pretentious’ are what the early reviews are saying. One viewer described it as ‘a train wreck in slow motion’. Avoid, we think. There are far better movies to watch on Valentine’s Day.
