Rampant use of clichés and skewered logic aside, the one single fact that murders any and all prospects of this film is its campy dialogue. Some of the lines force you to throw your head into your lap. The kitschy nature of these dialogues is beyond belief… End of the day, what could’ve been a thrilling and defiant movie, turns out to be such a listless affair.

‘Ungli’ is a good effort, judging purely by the mediocrity we’ve been dished out in the name of cinema of late, but that doesn’t make this effort great.

Ungli is a wasted opportunity, because it had all the tools for a fun comedy thriller. Perhaps next time D’Silva will deign to shoehorn melodrama when the comedy is working so well. The good thing about Ungli is it runs just shy of two hours, so even if you dislike the film, you’ll forget it the moment you reach home in time for dinner. The final shot of the movie is a giant hand showing you the middle finger, so whether you take that as a hint or not, is left to you.

Much like the middle finger salute, however, Ungli ends up to be a rather pointless and forgettable gesture.

Rensil D’silva (infamous for Qurbaan) gets into the all-in-one act with dialogues, story, screenplay and direction credited to him so there isn’t much cause to blame anyone else for the sloppy misinformed plotting. Also the lack of cohesive reasoning is unpardonable. Deepa Bhatia, editing expert extraordinaire does her best to make the film racier and more exciting but the narrative just doesn’t have what it takes.

Rensil D’Silva’s story has noble intentions and is topical as corruption affects every single man in every walk of life today. However, the well-intentioned story is too simplistic which makes it unpalatable. Ungli lacks entertainment as well as inspirational value and will, therefore, flop miserably at the box-office.

A sloppy display of corporate social responsibility by a production house that usually indulges in fluff…

With its incoherent subplots and all its silly dialogues that would embarrass even David Dhawan’s dialogue writer, Ungli becomes a shadow of what it could have been.

The film has social relevance, it raises the prominent problem of corruption, where the common man is not able to raise his voice against corrupt powers and suffers the injustice. The film somehow is successful in delivering the message of fighting for the injustice done to common man.

…an edgy drama but certainly contains a strong social message.