Takkar review: Yet another run-of-the-mill romantic drama

Director Karthik G Krish’s Takkar (Clash/Conflict), which can mean different things in different languages, is a commercial entertainer that hardly entertains.

The film is a mix of everything, yet nothing comes through.

Synopsis

The “modern” love story revolves around a rich feminist Mahalakshmi aka Lucky (Divyansha) — who has no faith in love and men — and a poor chauffeur named Gunasekhar alias Guna (Siddharth) who works in a firm renting out luxury cars.

Guna’s ambition is to get rich but his Achilles’ Heel is his fear as a result of which he is unable to hit back at those often assaulting him.

Takkar is about the transformation that both the lead characters undergo.

Guna finds a way to overcome his fear and hit back at his opponents. He also realises that happiness and money are two independent entities and that one doesn’t need money to be happy.

Lucky initially has a very negative opinion of men and marriage, thanks to her dad (director Arun Vaidhyanathan) and the man her dad is trying to get her married to. But eventually, she falls in love.

How both these characters influence one another and bring about a change in their belief systems is what Takkar is all about.

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Weak points

The problem with Takkar is that its plot lacks credibility. It does not have anything substantial to offer to you as a viewer and everything in it comes across as being either artificial, exaggerated or superfluous.

The makers — in the hope of delivering a commercial entertainer with a good measure of action, romance and comedy — have ended up delivering a film that serves neither of the three in a convincing manner.

The action sequences, like in quite a few other commercial films, seem to have forcefully fit into the plot to raise the stature of the hero’s character in the film.

The romantic portions, for the most part, appear to be of a transactional nature.

The comedy, which is served to viewers primarily through Yogi Babu’s character, hardly works.

The makers don’t seem to have realised that in their urge to present a story that is substantially different, they have eventually gone a full circle and ended up taking the road often taken.

In other words, Takkar is the same-old story of a rich girl falling madly in love with a poor boy.

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Performances

The film has some decent performances coming from its lead pair —Siddharth and Divyansha.

Bollywood actor Abimanyu Singh, as the leader of a kidnapping gang, also does his bit.

Final Take

But despite all of this, Takkar comes across as an insipid, boring, exaggerated run-of-the-mill romantic drama.

(Views expressed are personal.)