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Nazar: Less than meets the eye!
21st May 2005 00.20 IST
By N K Deoshi

Nazar could have been a gripping thriller, had it not been for the shoddy screenplay, the appalling climax and the misplacement of songs.

The movie marks the Bollywood debut of Pakistani actress Meera who impresses with her polished performance opposite a constantly hamming Ashmit Patel . The movie is also the maiden directorial attempt by Soni Razdan.

Nazar begins with an MTV style song showing Meera dancing along a scenic beach. CUT! And you realize that the song was a music video being shot on a stage performer/actress Divya (Meera).

Anyway, after wrapping up the shooting, Divya decides to drive back to Mumbai, despite the dark night. On her way back, a strange incident takes place that changes her life forever.

From then on, Divya begins to have visions from the future – visions of acts of brutal murders of nubile dance-bar girls being stabbed, strangulated, suffocated to death by a killer whose face continues to elude Divya’s clairvoyance.

In comes a cop, Rohan (Ashmit Patel), a Special Investigating officer who is investigating the murders of bargirls in the city.

Rohan believes in Divya’s visions and begins taking her help to zero down on prime suspects that include a doctor, a fugitive and an eccentric-alcoholic uncle who frequents bars regularly.

As the story moves(?) forward, Divya has the most startling vision. She is the next one on the killer’s list.

Meera impresses with her acting in the movie. She carries the right body language and gives off the required facial expressions. So what if she hasn’t dubbed her dialogues for the movie.

Ashmit Patel needs to go back to the acting school. His performance is ‘affected’. He tries hard to bring some intensity in his character and in doing so he only makes a spectacle of himself with his constant hamming.

All in all, Nazar starts off quite well and keeps your interest alive with unexpected twists and turns. The disclosure of the murderer’s identity comes as a shock, but the motive behind the murders is just not convincing.