Review: You'll lose your patience with 'Impatient Vivek'

Film: Impatient Vivek (U/A)

Cast: Vivek Sudarshan, Sayali Bhagat, Rounaog Ahuja

Director: Rahat Kazmi

Rating: Does not qualify

 

This film should have been called How To Lose Your Patience With Impatient Vivek. If you must know, I lost mine in 10 minutes flat. And so that you feel sympathetic, I will tell you why.

 

IV (Sudarshan) is a puppeteer (the hero stays true to his reel profession when acting) who uses his puppet to express feelings he can’t. On a holiday in Goa, he falls in love with Shruti (Bhagat) but fails to get any attention from her. Two years later, the pair meets by chance in their home town Udaipur.

 

After we are told of IV’s love for Shruti, the film explores unrelated tangents like the colourful interests of IV’s friends, jealous fights of Shruti’s stepbrothers, and another love triangle of Shruti’s best friend, fiancé and stepbrother Annu (Ahuja).

 

Confused? Never mind. The film comes back on track just before the interval when IV abducts Shruti on her wedding day assuming she likes him, too. Of course she doesn’t and IV’s folks don’t know how to deal with the problem their impatient son has brought home.

 

Nothing the filmmakers think is funny seems funny to the audience. Add to all the foolhardiness, the predictable girl-falls-for-good-guy climax and you have braced yourself for the ultimate two-and-a-half-hour patience test.

 

And just why does the hero IV think pouting all the time could make him desirable as an actor? Perhaps Bhagat could have done a better job, but a sham like this does not offer her much scope. The one and only facet of Impatient Vivek worth watching is Ahuja, who shows promise, but again, like Bhagat, he is lost in the tangle of an immature script and a non-existent story.

 

Impatient Vivek is so appalling you can’t even forgive yourself and say you left your brains at home. Pat yourself on the back if you leave the cinema hall cheery and happy after this alleged rom-com, for you will have passed the toughest test of patience devised so far.