Poorly scripted, this mystery turns comical at times!

Slightly disoriented, but Manoj Bajpayee-Tabu make it work…Missing isn’t a spellbinding thriller you were waiting for, but it has its moments.

Missing has very limited appeal and given its low promotion and slow start, it will go largely unnoticed.

Sushant Dubey and Aparna Dubey check into a Mauritian resort late night with their very unwell daughter Titli. By the morning, the child is missing. Everything literally begins to unravel as you watch cringeworthy hamming from greats like Tabu and Manoj Bajpayee. To add to the mess Annu Kapoor shows up as a cop overacting as always. It’s been touted as a ‘murder-mystery’, because they murdered cinema and it will be a mystery why these good actors chose to ‘act’ in this film.

If you are a Tabu fan, you’d find it easier to handle the incongruities that surface throughout the film. If not, then the going might get tough for you.

The monotony is awfully exhausting and drab in the absence of script, craft and nerve-racking unpredictability…

How do you manage a casting coup (Manoj Bajpayee and Tabu) and then waste those talents so spectacularly? How do you create an alleged plot that’s so witless?

Perhaps a watertight script and logic-backed ending could have saved this so-called thriller. Nevertheless, a decent effort by Abhyankar.

Missing keeps you hooked but it is largely due to the camerawork, crisp editing and Tabu and Annu Kapoor’s performance. The film is let down by bad dialogues. While Mukul has succeeded in building some truly suspenseful scenes, the film loses steam in the last 15 minutes. At the climax, you know what to expect but the treatment isn’t bad. It leaves you unsatisfied thinking it could be have been a lot better.

Somewhere, buried in this wreck is a satisfying suspense thriller. But it never emerges.

What good is a thriller that’s not thrilling? It gets worse when you start laughing at a mystery movie. Any and all prospect of this film is lost in the midst of shoddy filmmaking.