Movie Review: Bypass Road

Vikram Kapoor (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is a successful fashion designer having an affair with supermodel Sarah (Shama Sikander). Afdah He finds out that she was already engaged to someone and dumps her. He finds new love in his life in the form of his intern Radhika (Adhah Sharma). All is going hunky dory till he gets embroiled in the murder of Sarah. Worse, he meets with a near fatal accident which leaves him paralysed from the waist down and wheelchair bound. A masked killer is out to get him and he has to make use of his wits to stay alive.


Looks like debutant director Naman Nitin Mukesh believes in more the merrier adage. That's why he has packed as many plot twists in the film as there are commuters in a crowded Virar local compartment. As a result you lose count of the strands after a while. The basic idea looks good on paper but the execution is all over the place. The story and screenplay are both credited to Neil Nitin Mukesh and perhaps the pressure of writing, acting and producing the film got too much for him as implausible situations abound in the film. Yes, we agree that murder mysteries can have creative liberties but the actor has really stretched the limits. The dialogue is unintentionally hilarious. The second half is somewhat better than the first but the final revelation is again too far fetched.


The pace of the film is slow for a thriller. And at two hours and 17 minutes it's a tad long as well. Perhaps it would have been better if the songs, which don't add anything to the narrative, could have been done away with. The background score is jarring and the cinematography could have been better as well.


Neil Nitin Mukesh tried hard to rise above the script ironically written by him but his sincere efforts aren't enough to salvage the film. The rest of the cast, be it Rajit Kapur as the lead's father, Gul Panag as the stepmother, Shama Sikander as the supermodel and Adah Sharma as the do-gooder intern are stock characters that stick to the minimal.


Bypass Road may have aspired to soar high as a slasher flick but faulty writing kind of clips its wings.