Apathetic JOHNDAY fails to deliver !

“Sore and disappointing thriller” is actually a really fitting word for JOHNDAY, because when you're watching a full-length movie that centers on a character as deeply unlikeable and it just feels like a punishment. Even its promising cast can't save this from being a hot mess.

Story of the film is about Bank officer who loses his daughter in accident. He realizes later that it is not accident. And revenge drama with terrible incidents unfolds over a two hours. 

Every Character has troubled past and they are not capable to deal with it. Randeep Hooda has miserable childhood plays a police officer. Naseeruddin Shah who plays a “revenge father role” finds it difficult to deal with sense of loss of his daughter and hospitalized wife.  The third character, Police officer Girlfriend who loves him more than death and only few emotions to display throughout the movie.  

Positive part of direction could be some realistic sets of the film sets and unpredictable locations. Otherwise, Debut director Ahishor Solomon's direction is weak. Script doesn’t offer excitement and neither the director tries to create it. I could not understand director’s love for Graveyard and rain..? It did not helped this movie for sure. 

Language or script of the movie is insensitive apart from few good dialogues.  Good part of script is that it doesn’t have item song. Few lines may feel that script has some life but it is temporary and most of time you keep wondering, writer needs a crash course in writing or need to alter the approach. 

The bad guys of John Day movie are really bad. One level has been crossed to reach Hollywood. A bad guy hammers an innocent woman head and this head hammering happens with two characters to show that bad boys are growing without emotion. Too much of sadness in mind and heart, blood on body and some realistic scene but it fails to create a meaning sequence which can create griping screenplay. You need to have strong chest to see heavy blood, troubled past people.

 As we know that in the past, Anjum Rizvi happened to meet Neeraj Pandey and created a movie named “A Wednesday” I believe, entire nation loved the common man spirit of the movie. I definitely applaud producer Anjum  for giving a chance to one younger director (Debut director Ahishor Solomon)  but this time young man failed to produce the same result.

Movie is made around 17 Crore and it will be screened in 700 screens so needs a very good weekend to recover its cost. It looks unlikely that Movie will hold theaters for a week. 

I rate it as 1.5 out of 5. 

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Director: Ahishor Solomon
Cast: Randeep Hooda, Naseeruddin Shah