Film: Jackpot
Starring: Sachiin Joshi, Sunny Leone, Naseeruddin Shah
Director: Kaizad Gustad
Producer: Raina Sachiin Joshi
Banner: Viiking media , Entertainment Pvt Ltd
Music: Pritam
If you like films where a briefcase stashed with currency notes is tossed around with the cast in frenetic pursuit (think Guy Ritchie), then this is the film you would probably want to check out.
Noire cinema gets a twist in the tale. Ten years after his controversial and colourful "Boom", Gustad takes us on a Goan caper.
Shot with dexterity by Artur Zurawski in rain-drenched boats and the dockside desolation of Goa "Jackpot" is the kind of wild gambit of one-upmanship where heroes and wimps exchange places so swiftly and suddenly you don't know who is doing what. And to whom.
There are three main characters - let's just call them the Boss (Naseeruddin Shah), his moll (Sunny Leone) and the Boss' right hand man Francis (Sachiin Joshi).
The tightly packed episodes of the spiralling plot leave very little room for porous moments. There is no breathing space in the narration. Gustad piles up 'atmosphere' so aggressively, you fear the narration may collapse.
At 90 minutes "Jackpot" clocks quite a curious yarn, more notable for what it attempts than what it actually achieves. The narration dares damnation with episodes from the lives of the three main characters going back and forth as if time never really mattered to people who are on the road to monetary salvation.
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