Gajab Raat movie review: Manoj Bajpayee keeps you watching as film meanders
The Indian Express · Shubhra Gupta ·
Gajab Raat movie review: Manoj Bajpayee is the film's highlight, putting his low-life superiors in their place, elevating himself to the status of a hero who is on the take, but who will never be taken over.
Gajab Raat movie review: Another of those iss raat ki subah nahin sagas, featuring bent cops, greedy politicians, gun-toting hoods, and sundry others chasing a common target, the best thing about Gajab Raat is its lead actor.
Manoj Bajpayee, unerringly playing a very efficient but very corrupt cop whose conscience is not completely dead, kept me watching even when the pace slackened.
A film whose level of interest depends entirely on how pacy it is has no business losing track of time, but given that it goes over two hours, what else could we have expected. After losing no time in getting everything kickstarted, with a grievously injured girl (Aditi Sandhya Sharma) slides out of a moving car in the middle of Connaught Place, followed by a rapid if reluctant response from an investigating officer (Manoj Bajpayee) and his team, a whole host of shady characters target the victim who is left fighting for her life.
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