Anushree Mehta directorial “Mrs Undercover” and Radhika Apte starrer is a verse to homemakers but gets watered down with graceless humour

Mrs Undercover Review:

Anushree Mehta directorial
“Mrs Undercover” and Radhika Apte starrer is a verse to homemakers but gets watered down with graceless humour

Mrs Undercover, though an honest and sincere film has great intent but disappoints in the entertainment paradigm.

We imperceptibly ever come across an anecdote that is narrated by a female filmmaker around a female protagonist.
But, it’s for the first-time feature director Anushree Mehta has something similar to offer in Mrs Undercover.

In a male dominant film industry, Anushree has taken a intrepid step and made a film that lifts the spy comedy genre a bit.

Set in Kolkata, Durga (Radhika Apte), an ex-agent, gets a mission to kill a serial killer named common man (Sumeet Vyas) following jobless for 12 long years. Durga, who is a full-time homemaker now and runs a family of five, refuses to shoulder this responsibility. Special force chief (Rajesh Sharma) tries to convince Durga. Will she take up the job?

With an interesting plot line, Anushree brings an easy breezy film which also is a verse to homemakers that smashes the patriarchal culture and celebrates women empowerment. Anushree breaks several stereotypes about formula filmmaking but the dash of humour distracts from the core concept.

However, it seems that Anushree wanted to narrate a story of a woman, who is a homemaker in a light-hearted way or spy-comedy genre isn’t palatable yet, but a believable yet slightly predictable screenplay could have been much more effective.

Mrs Undercover is an honest and sincere film that has great intent but disappoints in the entertainment paradigm. Debutant DOP Abhimanyu Sengupta made Kolkata look fresh considering the city is synonymous with thrillers.

Radhika Apte yet again proves that she is an above-average artiste whose potential is still untapped. Her comic timing is one of a kind. She does clean action too. Sumeet Vyas as the serial killer is watchable.

This role surely is a good break for him from his goody roles so far. Rajesh Sharma is a committed actor irrespective of his troublesome character in the film.

Mrs Undercover is a one-time decent watch. It is flawed but manages to impress in several departments. A straight-to-OTT release might make the film more popular than it could have been had it released in theatres.

Radhika Apte adds that though she is honest in her talks,.at times regrets when the headlines don’t match the context.

News input KV Raman