A whodunit usually works because it layers its principal plot with confounding subplots that distract you every time you reach a logical conclusion.
What's it about: A whodunit usually works because it layers its principal plot with confounding subplots that distract you every time you reach a logical conclusion.
However, with Toss a story of six friends, everything is a distraction and not in the good sense! Josh (Ashmit Patel), Ryan (Rannvijay Singh), Sami (Prashant Raj), Sasha (Aarti Chabbria) and and Sherry (Madhurima Banerjee) embark on a road trip to nowhere cracking corny jokes and acting like they just dropped out of high school.
Kismet gives them a bad connection when they stumble upon two metal suitcases filled with 25 crore. While Sami decides to stay out of the mess, the others divide the sum equally but decide to touch the loot at a later date.
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But when Ryan decides to extract his share for his girlfriend Fiona (Shruti Gera), the rest oppose him. Soon we meet a weird trio of brothers (Mahesh Manjrekar, Sushant Singh and an annoying kid) who are the actual owners of the suitcases.
Murders start happenings, friends double cross each other, the money disappears and the climax finally goes for a toss!
What's hot: Rannvijay Singh's debut performance is light on the eyes and easygoing. He succeeds because he doesn't try hard to follow the lame script. As Goan boy Ryan, Singh exudes enough charm to raise your spirits for a while.
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What's not: Toss veils itself as a thriller but has the pace of a saas-bahu never ending saga. The first half struggles to create interest by making a mountain of insanities and illogical situations that are devised to make up sit up and notice.
But as you sit in that chair and wait for someone to die or a dead body to be found, we get mindless song-and-dance routines that act as fillers to compensate for lack of a script.
The cast hams endlessly, especially the ladies whose lines begin with "you bastard" and end on a "get out of this room" note!
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The climax is banal where the film reaches its lowest point. Manjrekar suffers a bad hair day while Ashmit Patel gets to flex his muscles and clench his jaws.
What's that! When Rannvijay's leg gets stuck in a mudhole, Ashmit asks him, "Kya yaar, tu kisi bhi hole mein ghus jata hai!"
What to do: Give this one a full toss. Strictly avoidable and embarrassingly boring, it should have gone direct to DVD.
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a; thriller
Dir: Ramesh Khatkar
Cast: Ashmit Patel, Rannvijay Singh, Aarti Chabbria, Prashant Raj, Mahesh Manjrekar, Madhurima Banerjee
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