Kunal Khemu with Amrita Puri in Blood Money
Star Cast of Blood Money : Kunal Khemu, Amrita Puri, Manish Choudhary
Shekher Shukla, Mia Uyeda, Karan Mehra Director: Vishal Mahadkar
Producer: Mahesh Bhatt
Music Director: Siddharth Haldipur, Sangeet Haldipur, Jeet Gannguii
Lyricst: Sayeed Quadri, Kumaar
Singers : Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Clinton Cerejo,
Mustafa Zahid
Many films made by the Bhatt camp in the past have shown the lead character as an ordinary middle-class person aspiring big in life and getting caught in the web of the underworld. With Blood Money, the camp tries to make one more film, which again has the same subject as its central idea.
Blood Money is a story of Kunal (Kunal Khemu), who moves abroad along with his wife Arzoo [Amrita Puri] in South Africa to work for a diamond company. As the ambitious man displays his capacity to sell diamonds, the owner of the company Zaveri [Manish Chaudhuri] gives him one promotion after another. But whereas Kunal enjoys his success, as he makes it big, he has problems with his wife on one hand and with Zaveri’s brother on the other hand. Soon, Kunal also finds out that much of Zaveri’s business is illegal and with every passing day, he is becoming a part of it. On finding out that Kunal knows about the illegal part of his business and wants to destroy him, Zaveri lays a trap to kill Kunal. In today’s time, to make a good film, you have to offer something entirely new to the viewers. Even if you are offering a stale deal to the viewer, you have to pack it in such a way that it looks brand new on screen. That’s where Blood Money totally losses out in impressing the viewers. Though there are some interesting moments, the viewer does not appreciate these moments too much because apart from these selective moments, you are not watching anything new and attractive in the film.
The first hour of the film is excellent. The screenplay of Blood Money showcases a young ambitious man in the most appropriate manner. Any young man will relate to Kunal in the first part of the film and see little bit of Kunal in himself. But then the way Kunal fights the underworld at the climax is most unreal. The climax of the film, where the lead actor keeps running despite being stabbed is not easy to understand either.
The director of Blood Money Vishal Mahadkar has dealt with certain aspects of the story pretty well. The tensions in the relations of the lead character Kunal and his wife on one hand and Kunal and Zeveri’s brother on the other hand get shown on the screen in a beautiful manner. The screenplay also successfully establishes Kunal as an ambitious man, But, all this is in the initial part of the film. A weak screenplay spoils the film completely in the climax.
Apart from the direction, the music and cinematography of Blood Money are good.
Kunal Khemu is excellent in the film. The powerful performance in Blood Money will help him establish as an actor in the industry. Amrita Puri also matches Kunal in the film with an equally good performance. Apart from the lead pair, Manish Chaudhuri, Sandiip Sikcand and Teeshay also give good performance and leave an impact. But the role of Mia Uyeda and Karan Mehra are very small.
You can say that Blood Money starts off well but a weak story and screenplay makes the film lose its way. Though, it’s a good attempt, the film could have been much better.
