Chase: No Mercy To Crime

Satyendra Yadav (Amyth Sethi) is a local political figure’s spoilt offspring, who will stop at nothing to acquire the ticket from his father Shailendra Yadav’s political party and contest the upcoming elections. Both father and songo around committing heinous crimes – ranging from extortion, robbery, rape and even murder – over a long period of time.But when the Kolkata Police gets involved for an inter-city man hunt for these two serial offenders, who seem to get away with everything in their home town, the duo breaks.

‘Chase – No Mercy To Crime’ is a movie that celebrates the guts and gumption of Kolkata Police Force and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) but the movie has been stretched way beyond our imagination, even by cinematic standards. The actors fail to render believable performances and have hammed throughout this crime drama. Sure, there are prominent names in the film like Sudip Mukherjee from the Bengali film industry (plays the role of IPS Officer Avinash), but despite his earnest efforts in making this film a watchable piece of art, it fails. The cinematography is not of great quality, and the length of the movie (sans any song-and-dance sequences) makes it hard to even sit through the very end.

Overall, this crime drama, apparently based on true events, would have made for a great story but nothing about it adds up – not the juvenile direction, or the haphazard screenplay, and definitely not the kind of acting that we get to witness in it. This tale of valour is better left untouched.

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