In today’s smartphone world, nothing is personal anymore. From pictures
and videos to documents and simple forwards, all that you create/save on
your gadget can be accessed by complete strangers. Some of the
by-products of this advancement of technology are information theft,
bank frauds and ‘homemade sex videos’. Sajo, in this Tamil-Hindi
bilingual, has hoped to educate people on how anything you create on
your smartphone can never be destroyed, and can potentially be seen by
millions of people across the world. And he has partially succeeded,
primarily because he repeats the theme in almost every scene.
The director wastes no time in diving right into the story, and we see
reporter Manoj (Ajay Raj) and his colleague Danny (Nijay) asking people
if they think porn sites should be shut down. When one of them says that
these sites are responsible for many suicides, he checks out one of the
websites, and is shocked to find his best friend Ankit’s (Prasanna
Shetty) wife’s (Akriti Singh as Tripthi) video doing the rounds. Turns
out, the video was shot by his friend himself because he wanted a
‘memory that will remind him how young and slim his wife was’ even after
she piles on weight post childbirth! While Ankit commits suicide, Manoj
becomes a man on mission – to find out who’s responsible for the leak
and bring him to task. He takes help from his cop friend Imran (Shan),
and his search leads him to Vikram (Praboojit) and his gang of
disgruntled software professionals, who’ve launched a porn site
featuring homemade, desi videos, procured from mobile technicians and
techies who service phones and computers.
The film features mostly newcomers, and for debutants, they have pulled
off their roles commendably. In scenes where he’s overcome with guilt
and blames himself for the death of his friend, Ajay performs well, and
Akriti scores when she expresses her reluctance to be shot while
undressing. The sequences between Vikram and Imran evoke claps from the
audience, making for some lighter moments.
Despite being a film on the flourishing porn industry, and with scope to
add explicit, ‘X’-rated scenes, it’s commendable how Sajo has kept the
content 'clean'. But, it’s the scripting where he falters. The concept
of the film is loud and clear, but he seems to have wavered while
penning down the script. There are too many sub-plots within the story,
and though the run time is less than two hours, you are thoroughly spent
by the time you reach the climax. Oh, no pun intended.
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