Main Aur Charles

Overall, "Main Aur Charles" is a well-made intriguing film with realistic performances.

Although the movie does get a little confusing, Main Aur Charles is a good one time watch especially if you have an interest to know about this "Bikini Killer".

The movie is all style and very little soul. And that's a disappointment as it attempted to tell a really fascinating story of a mastermind. But do watch it, if only for Hooda.

Prawaal Raman does a commendable job of recreating the 60s-70s. He also gets his protagonist's physicality and smugness bang on. Working on a wafer-thin account given to him by the real-life Delhi cop, Amod Kanth, Raman still manages to infuse life (at least partly) into this film and into the life of the notorious killer.

They are stylish snippets that have little detail in the telling. Yet again, we have a film based on a real life personality that doesn't tell us much more about the personality than what we new from newspapers or a quick Internet search.

Watch it for Randeep Hooda, his performance is the single most reason you might want to check out Main Aur Charles this weekend.

We have always been a fan of Richa Chadha's acting and in Main Aur Charles too, the actress has tried delivering her best. Randeep Hooda is fatally charming as Sobhraj and this movie becomes worth watching because of him and English Vinglish fame actor Adil Hussain.

Writer-director Raman spells everything out to build an aura around a character that is inspired by the infamous criminal Charles Sobhraj. But words alone are never enough to convince you that this is a man capable of seduction, deception and murder. You need to see it to believe it. That's where Main Aur Charles fails - You are never quite sold on Charles.

Watch Main Aur Charles for the thriller it is. Not for the biopic on Charles, which it clearly is not. Watch the film for Randeep Honda, not for a dose in criminal psychology .

This was an attempt to make an engaging crime-drama, hoping to cash in on Charles Sobhraj's larger-than-life image. But the makers have taken truly explosive material and tamed it down, choosing to glamourize the villain to a nauseating level. The film had so much more potential!

Main Aur Charles is a big yawn!

Main Aur Charles gains some momentum in the second half and gives us a closer look at Shobhraj, the man, but does not dig deeper into his psyche or reveals much about him. You should avoid this film at all costs: The narrative offers nothing at all and despite the good performances, badly-sketched characters leave little for the actors to do.

Given the list of his criminal activities especially the jail break in 1986 and considering the fact that Sobhraj's case is one of the most interesting and intriguing stories in the history of India, Main Aur Charles is worth a watch.

Main Aur Charles is too gimmicky and hence even though not Randeep's but the film's charm wears off pretty soon. It fails to come across as a potent criminal drama...