Movie Review: 'Inkaar'

Inkaar A Drama Director Sudhir Mishra Cast Arjun Rampal Chitrangada Singh Deepti Naval First tell me is there only one ad agency in this whole country Must be because in Sudhir Mishrarsquos Inkaar KK amp Doyle mdash the agency where the socalled sexual harassment drama unfolds mdash doesnrsquot have any staff or client turnover The poor employees of this delightful agency not only stick to their jobs but also party with their bitchy colleagues and bosses and donrsquot mind freely voicing their comments about their colleaguesrsquo office romanceturnedsexual harassment case Oh yes this ainrsquot a straight sexual harassment case where a male colleague makes subtle overtures towards a female colleague and the said victim suffers till she canrsquot take anymore and then complains to the management Arjun Rampal Chitrangada Singh in Inkaar Narrated as the proceedings of a sexual harassment case in front of a committee representative Inkaarrsquos a strange case It is about KK amp Doyle CEO Rahul Verma and traineeturnedchiefcopywriterturned National Creative Director this designation must have been uttered more than 108 times in the film I swear Maya Luthra and their romance as bosstrainee break off as boss and chief copywriter and corporate oneupmanship as CEO and NCD as the latter rises in work hierarchy The whys are unknown or maybe Chitrangadarsquos bosom revealing sarees at work presentations are to blame but Rahul and Maya start sleeping with each other during a work trip in Thailand Rahul teaches his proteacutegeacutee to present her pitches confidently power dress and pronounce lsquoChanelrsquo instead of calling it Channel Mayarsquos campaigns and wellearned promotions soon start to be viewed with suspicion by her agency colleagues It also seems to her that Rahul is just not that much into her there are after all many leggy models in the advertising world who are good at mangosucking In a fit of jealousy and regret Maya takes a transfer to Delhi She returns after seven years and a stint in New York to be crowned oh that muchhated word National Creative Director But it seems Rahulrsquos not too happy with her rise He stalls her assignments doesnrsquot handover info easily makes a lot of inappropriate comments and makes her lose a few clients The uberstylish Maya bambooed by the superboss freaks out completely and complains of harassment Clearly these are roles of a lifetime for lead actors Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh Inkaar keeps them in tight focus and rarely lets them off the hook The pair too tries its best to sizzle but the sizzlefree story lets them down completely Deepti Naval is completely wasted while the rest are just stock characters The biggest problem area with Inkaar and most films revolving around workplace issues is the portrayal of the female protagonist For such an ambitious woman Maya is shown to be a clueless trainee remarkably insecure about her own rise a paranoid leader and prone to frequent emotional outbursts in work situations Another problem area is the many brazen generalisations about scorned women how flirting is natural when beautiful men and women work together all hours of the day the fine line between camaraderie flirting and harassment Maybe a little more time in an actual office observing daytoday dynamics between colleagues of the opposite sex or interacting with mature women professionals would have added a little insight to the plot One expected more maturity from a Sudhir Mishra film What was that During their Thailand trip Rahul calls up a fully dressed Maya while she is in the lobby and asks her meet him in the room immediately Strangely though in the very next scene when Rahul comes to her room Maya is lounging in a bathrobe with wet hair and then changes behind a thoroughly transparent glass door Was it deliberate of Maya to lure Rahul Or a major continuity lapse