B-6 | Friday, May 8, 2020 www.WeeklyVoice.com Mrs Serial Killer: Utterly Messed-Up Movie “Mrs Serial Killer”; Cast: Jac- don’t miss trademark of the genre queline Fernandez, Manoj Ba- in its grungy camerawork (Ravi jpayee, Mohit Raina, Zayn Ma- K. Chandran and Kiran Deohans) rie; Direction: Shirish Kunder; and the moody background score. Rating: * (one star) The ilm’s production design (Shashank Tere) is also impres- By Vinayak Chakravorty sive. Yet, all the technical gloss get overshadowed by inept story- Some ilms are bad right from telling. the irst shot and, much against It doesn’t help that almost all your sincerest hopes, things don’t actors are essaying half-baked get better. Shirish Kunder made roles. Jacqueline looks like she is one such utterly unbearable ilm a either clueless about what she’s few years ago, with “Joker”. He’s supposed to do with her title role, done it again with his new feature or simply too wooden to come up for Netlix. with the right expressions. “Mrs Serial Killer” aims to be a Newcomer Zayn Marie gets to psycho thriller, and Kunder prob- impress with an action sequence, ably thought of making it because but then spends the rest of her footage as a captive tied to a bed. the only ilm of worth he’s ever Pic: Screen grab from oficial Netlix Trailer of ‘Mrs. Serial Killer’ made so far was “Kriti”, a short clearly signed ilm that belonged to that genre prowl. Bodies of half a dozen That’s when Joy’s lawyer (Dar- (Zayn Marie) is just what the nar- the ilm for the last half hour or and garnered much applaud. young pregnant girls have been shan Jariwala) comes up with rative ordered. so, which is when he doesn’t let In “Mrs Serial Killer”, he also found -- each of them aborted a bizarre plan. Sona must kill a It is clear where Kunder was his fans down. Most of the others brings back Manoj Bajpayee, and dismembered. Evidence young pregnant girl in the same coming from. He has obviously go through the motions of their who starred in “Kriti”. It’s an ab- points at Mrityunjoy, or Joy, and way while Joy is still in jail, so been inspired by too many Far roles mechanically. solutely wasted casting exercise who should be probing the case that cops believe his innocence. East thrillers -- those grizzly From “Ghost Stories” to as the minutes pass, because not but Inspector Imran Shahid (Mo- If that brainwave sounds gems that have redeined the- psy“Drive” to “Mrs Serial Killer”, even brilliant Bajpayee can save hit Raina), ex-boyfriend of Joy’s wacky, there’s more in store. For cho movie over the years. While Netlix’s ilmmaking graph in -In this incoherent mess. wife Sona (Jacqueline Fernan- her own sake and the script’s the gore factor is substantially dia is only going embarrassingly Bajpayee is Mrityunjoy dez). runtime, Sona doesn’t even have lower in “Mrs Serial Killer” than southwards. The OTT platform Mukherjee, a successful gynae- Sona decides Shahid is victim- to hunt around for her victim. what Korean and Japanese psy- needs to reorganise strategy be- cologist. A serial killer is on the izing Joy because he is jealous. Neighbourhood girl Anushka cho licks normally hawk, you fore they are rendered irrelevant. Neil’s Daughter Nurvi Grooves Siddhant Shares Tip On Making Tea : Actor , seen in Yash Raj ’ “ who became popular playing MC Sher in 2” and Karan Johar’ untitled ilm. To ‘’ Song “”, has shared what his mother In JOhar’s ilm directed by Shakun told him when it comes to brewing a cup Batra, Siddhant teams up with Deepika of tea. Padukone and . Siddhant took to instagram, where he The YRF production “Bunty Aur Babli shared a photograph that shows him pre- 2” casts him opposite debutant Mumbai paring tea. In the photograph, it is writ- girl Sharvari. The ilm is directed by -Va ten: “Beta, chai peen ka shauk rakhte ho... run Sharma. Toh bartan dhone ka Khayaal saath lekar “Bunty Aur Bubli 2” also features Saif chalo.” (If you like to have tea, then keep Ali Khan and in important in mind about the dishes.) roles. It is a sequel to the 2005 hit “Bun- He captioned the image: “Maa ne kaha ty Aur Babli”, which starred Amitabh tha beta... (Mother said son...)” Bachchan, and Rani On the acting front, Siddhant will be Mukerji in lead roles. Ileana D’Cruz Is Now Her Own Hairstylist MUMBAI: With the lockdown jeop- ardising life, actress Ileana D’Cruz chose to cut her own hair amid the lockdown. She took to Instagram Story and shared a photograph of herself where she can be MUMBAI: In a new video posted by Raghavan also stars , Zakir seen launting her newly-cropped tresses. Neil , the Bollywood actor’s Hussain, , Vinay Pathak, Govind “So I cut my hair,” Ileana wrote. toddler daughter Nurvi can be seen enjoy- Namdeo, Dayanand Shetty and Ashwini In another picture, the actress can be ing a track from her father’s 2007 release, Kalsekar. seen smiling at the camera. “Johnny Gaddaar”. Neil married Rukmini Sahay in 2017. “Not too bad considering the last time I Neil took to Instagram stories to share a The two welcomed their daughter Nurvi in did something I like this was when I was video of his two-year-old daughter dancing 2018. about 7 and on my dolls. #quarantinelife.” to the song “Move Your Body” from the The actor, who is the grandson of leg- Recently, Ileana declared that she does endary singer Mukesh and son of veteran ilm, which marked his debut in a starring not sit like a lady, along with a snapshot role. Neil captioned the clip: “Like father singer Nitin Mukesh, is worked in ilms where she is seen sitting in a car. She sits like daughter”. like “Johnny Gaddaar”, “New York”, “Da- in a relaxed manner with her tongue wag- “Johnny Gaddaar” directed by Sriram vid”, “Wazir” and “”. ging out. “Them: sit like a lady. Me: (funny emo- ji),” Ileana captioned. On the work front, Ileana will next be seen alongside Abhishek Bachchan in Ajay Devgn’s production “The Big Bull”, a ilm reportedly based on ’s biggest securities scam of 1992. “The Big Bull” is slated to hit theatres on October 23. Shubhangi As Kathak Teacher

MUMBAI: “Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain!” of art never ends but grows with sharing actress Shubhangi Atre is now giving more and more..I’m here to share and im- Kathak classes online. prove myself and enjoy my lockdown pe- “I have noticed that during the lock- riod,” she added. down period, many people are showing She has been getting many requests interest in learning the dance form. I’m from people who are willing to learn available for whoever wants to learn it on- Kathak. “April 29 wass celebrated as In- line,” said Shubhangi. ternational Dance Day, so I started my “As they say this beautiful knowledge classes on social media that day.”