Hisaab Barabar Movie Review: R Madhavan's film 'Hisaab Barabar' stars Kriti Kulhari of 'Pink' fame in the lead role. Neil Nitin Mukesh, Manu Rishi Chadha, and Reshmi Desai play the lead roles. This film, which was made in Hindi, is also streaming in Telugu and Tamil. How is this film, which was released on 'Zee5' OTT, like?
Hisab Barabar Movie Story:
Radhe Mohan Sharma (R Madhavan) is a ticket collector in the railways. He dreams of becoming a CA but is working a job that came after his father's death. He is a single parent. While taking care of his son's responsibilities, he tells accounts to his children at the railway station in his free time.
Radhe Mohan Sharma is perfect in calculations. Once he notices that the interest due to him from the bank is Rs. 27.50 less. He goes to the bank and complains. After that, as if the whole world were to move, it would be revealed that bank owner Mickey Mehta (Neil Nitin Mukesh) had scammed more than 2000 crores.
What did Mickey Mehta do to Radhe Mohan Sharma, who exposed the fraud he was doing? How did Minister Dayal (Manu Rishi Chadha) help him to get out of the scam case? How much trouble did Radhe Mohan Sharma go through? Did Mickey flee the country? Or did he get caught by the law? What happened in the end? You should know by watching the movie.
Hisaab Barabar Movie Analysis:
Common people who haggle for rupees, two rupees, or five rupees while buying vegetables... never check their bank account statements properly. Even if they do, they don't care much even if ten or fifteen rupees are deducted as charges. They don't calculate how much money is actually in the account? How much interest has been earned? Director Ashwini Dhir has captured this point perfectly.
The point taken by Ashwini Dhir is good. If each person is left with ten rupees? If lakhs of people add up the tens, how many crores will it be? The point taken by him is also good. The potential of Shankar Early's films is in the story of this film. But, the execution is not good at all. Trying to tell a serious story with comedy is a bit of a bummer.
The approach of 'Hisab Barabar' etc. is interesting. When there is a villain who manages the system with money... the struggle of the common man is always interesting. The reason for the loss of interest in the story and the film is the comedy and routine scenes. Every time Reshmi Desai enters the role of taking care of the hero's child, I feel like pressing the 'pause' button to go to the side or forward. The character comedy of Madhavan asking for a credit card when he goes to the bank also did not work out. But, he was used for a crucial twist in the story.
Ashwini Dheer, who took a good point... failed to write good scenes. Although he created the hero character as a common man, he did not write scenes that everyone in the common audience would relate to/feel. If you see the scene where government officials come and demolish the hero's house because it is illegal... you will remember the scene where hero Arjun demolishes his house in 'Oke Okkadu'. Actually, the railways give quarters to TCs (ticket collectors) right?
Does the hero live in his own house? Or does he live in quarters? The film was made as if you should watch it without asking questions like that. If you see heroine Kriti Kulhari being made into a police officer... you can understand how much cinematic liberty was taken in terms of writing. If you see everyone helping the hero when the climax comes... it will be like women who watch TV serials catching a thief in 'Spyder'.
There are very few impressive aspects of the writing and direction. The songs are okay. But the background music is not good. The repeated 'Hisab Barabar' is a bit irritating. The cinematography is decent. The production values are in line with the story.
Actors Performance:
Madhavan's look and acting as a commoner are good. But, it is not a role that suits his talent. Due to writing mistakes, he is left clueless in some scenes. Kriti Kulhari has done her best to do justice to Poonam Subhash's character. She looked beautiful as a girl who traveled on the railway every day.
She gave cute looks. After being revealed as a police officer, she showed variation in her acting. Neil Nitin Mukesh's white-collar criminal role. But, if you look at that acting, it looks like he has done a mafia/drug dealer/don role. There are no entertaining roles.
Director Ashwin Dheer's idea is good, but the film is not. The balance between serious issues and comedy is not balanced. It is not a common thing for a common man who went to the bank for Rs. 27 to expose a scam of 2000 crores. But, the director's calculation was wrong by filling it with silly scenes. Madhavan and Kriti Kulhari tried to pull it off to some extent with their performances, but they could not balance it. This calculation is insufficient for the audience to be entertained and watch from beginning to end. The balance is not balanced.