Impatient Vivek

Cast: Vivek Sudarshan, Sayali Bhagat, Hrishikesh Joshi, Charu Asopa, Rounaog Ahuja, Muni Jha, Pratik Dixit, Nirmal Soni, Ashok Beniwal, R. P. Singh, Kirti Kapoor, Vijay Bhatia, Sharmila Goenka, Hemangi Rao, Anurag Saxena, Zia A. Khan

Director: Rahat Kazmi

The movie Impatient Vivek is a brilliant rom com, set on the beaches and lush locales of Goa. The story revolves around a young boy from Rajasthan named Vivek who visits Goa and happens to meet a girl. A scientist by Profession, Vivek is just too shy to open up and express his feelings. Then the love bug bites him and he is totally smitten by the girl called Shruti. The movie is basically about the art of puppetry and the male protagonist is seen taking the help of puppets to express his feelings to his lady love. The storyline has a deep connection with puppets playing a pivotal role .Hence the colorful backdrop of the film is simply amazing and the movie gets quite interesting with the boy proposing to the girl via puppets. The plot however has a lot of unfolding to do before the inevitable happens. Thus Vivek, who is fondly called IV, gets into a dejection mode as Shruti is not really very interested in him. Not able to come to terms with his dejection, IV or Vivek returns to his home town.

The storyline then fast forwards to two years hence. Now, Vivek and Shruti happen to meet again but accidently. This time IV or Vivek is unable to let go off his love and immediately proposes to her. But again he faces dejection as Shruti was already engaged to be married soon. The lover boy finds himself in such a desperate state that he finally goes ahead and kidnaps Shruti. This turn of event therefore leads to a series of hilarious situations and as each scene unfolds there is plenty of drama and fun as Shruti’s family struggles to get her back. The story of the film is written by Rahat Kazmi and B.K Tyagi. Music is by Shadaab Bhartiya, Anamik, Neeraj Shrivastava and Raja Ali. The movie releases on the 7th of January all over India. Be sure to catch it up. Impatient Vivek is one of those films that make you tear your hair apart or make you regret your decision to watch it. It has a bewildering plot of an impatient person Vivek (Vivek Sudarshan) who falls in love with a girl Shruti (Sayali Bhagat). But without knowing whether she loves him or not he goes ahead talking to her father about marriage. Facing rejection, he kidnaps Shruti only to realize she doesn't love him. But that's not it, there are many stories that run in tangent to the main plot making you wonder what eventually the main plot of the film was. So you have a step brother of Shruti called Annu (Rounaog Ahuja) who comes out of nowhere in the middle of the film and falls in love with his childhood friend Rani (Charu Asopa) who too suddenly makes her entry into the story. There's also a wicked mom and her wicked son both of whom don't want to share their wealth with Annu and deploy means to get him out of their house!

Impatient Vivek, that claims to be a rom-com, has been passed by the censor board with an 'A' certificate and 15 minutes into the film you know why. There are many unnecessary voyeuristic scenes that are meant to be funny but appear crass and vulgar. Impatient Vivek is neither romantic nor is it remotely comic. Rather this product from director Rahat Kazmi is simply listless. Not one scene, dialogue or character in the film comes out good. The cinematography is mediocre and so is the music and background score. Debutante actor Vivek hams and stutters his way through the film. Sayali Bhagat appears like an overgrown, immature actress and seriously needs to work on her act. Final verdict Impatient Vivek not only has faulty script but also rides on hammy actors bristling their way through the film. It tests your patience to the fullest. Best Avoided!

In case of 'Impatient Vivek', there isn't any redeeming factor whatsoever. Actors don't act, director doesn't direct, story writer doesn't write a story good enough and the technical crew doesn't bring in any finesse to the product. End result? A total disaster which even makes one forget that even the title of the film was totally indecipherable to begin with. The film is about a young man named IV (Vivek Sudarshan) who is 'Idiot Vivek' for his dad, 'Impatient Vivek' for his friends and 'Adorable Vivek' for his mother. Ever so hasty in his decision making, he falls in love with Sayali Bhagat but when the girl doesn't respond and things don't go as per the plan, he kidnaps her. What follows from this point on is total commotion that makes one totally give up rather than spend time and energy on getting restless or impatient. 'Impatient Vivek' is everything that one expects from a film which comes out of nowhere and doesn't hold any credentials whatsoever from the production perspective. The leading lady walks into a police station in an outfit which would be deemed fit for a ramp, side heroes and heroines indulge into love making which by no means is connected to the story and other random scenes fill up rest of the remaining one and a half hours which are torturous by all means.

Neither Sayali's 'bhatakti aatma' act nor Vivek getting kicked in his private parts bring even a smile on the face. Also, the plot continues go off tangent every now and then with nothing coherent about it. Worse, songs come at just the wrong places in the film and since they aren't well tuned either, they hardly act as a relief. Amongst actors, Vivek just doesn't get it right. Leaving aside the fact that he doesn't look the part of a leading man, he can't act. Period. His dialogue delivery is faulty as well while his body language is awkward. Even Sayali Bhagat, who showed promise in her debut outing 'The Train' which released three years back, seems to be totally lost and doesn't have much to do.

'Impatient Vivek' is one terrible, terrible and terrible film. It doesn't make you impatient by the way; it just makes you get engaged with other far more exciting activities, notably being clearing your mailbox in your cell phone. Really, in front of 'Impatient Vivek', director Rahat Kazmi's first film 'Dekh Re Dekh' looks like 'Peepli [Live]' (the common element there being Raghuveer Yadav).