By - Amit kumaR Agarwal
Done to death stories need a really innovative screenplay to capture audience attention. O Romeo fails on this count.
Ustara (Shahid Kapoor) works as a contract killer for IB officer Ismail Khan (Nana Patekar). He is being hunted by international gangster and terrorist Jalal.
Enters Afshan (Tripti Dimri); she wants to contract him with the killings of — Jalal (Avinash Tiwari), inspector Pathare (Rahul Deshpande), don Shankar (Rohit Pathak) and lawyer Ansari (Resh Lamba).
Why; because they killed her husband, Mehmood (Vikrant Massey) when he tried to leave the gang of Jalal.
This done to death story needed a really innovative screenplay to hold any interest. Instead...
The result is a designer film with a bloated budget with absolutely no emotions. The emotional angle between the love of the protagonists Ustara and Afshan had to be very very intense for the audiences to invest in the film. It is sorely lacking and that is, as much a fault of the writing as it is of direction.
Vishal's best till date are Omkara and Maqbool; to a lesser extent Kameeney. Here he can take heart from the fact that the film is better than his earlier flops, Haider and Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola.
At the box-office after a below-average weekend, thanks to the 'managed' reviews, the going will be very very tough.