I have to confess that often, I tend to over-adjecti-fy the
cause of criticizing something. Also, am not a big fan of singing hymns when I appreciate
someone - people call me disapprovingly polarized and sometimes, I have no
defense! However, when it comes to RAID, my good, bad and the ugly neurons
worked in perfect tandem to watch and somewhat, admire the movie. For starters,
it does not try to be a Karan Johar type of movie that shoots across global
locations and dresses-up megastars with costumes, role-plays and borrowed styles
that just don’t seem to sync. RAID is slightly under-cooked. This actually helps
to make the movie watchable. The story isn’t something worthy of being a
conversation-starter. You might find it surprising but there are no raids as
such in the movie – yes, RAID is a singular in every sense. The entire plot is
knitted around a few days of income tax department’s invasion. The perpetrator is
Saurabh Shukla – as vile and well-groomed for this role as you can imagine. His
dialogues are interspersed with just the right amount of facial expressions
that oscillate from disgust to bouts of violent anger and reluctance to accept
the reality.
