Why Cheat India
*ing: Emraan Hashmi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Snighadeep Chatterjee
Rated: 3/10
Mostly, Emraan Hashmi films do not cheat viewers but this one does and that’s because the story does not know on whose side it is. So, you get a glorified version of why students cheat, almost defending the malpractice, while blaming the education system and then not coming up with a solid argument against it.
That’s Why Cheat India for you, and it comes without a closure, at least not in the conventional sense. An onslaught on learning by rote and that’s about all the film has — that when it could have been so much more hard-hitting, focussed on the issue and a pathbreaking film on a raging issue. All it does is stray (not just with a peck on Hashmi’s lip which may be signalling his sensibilities towards his growing children) into song and dance and romance and an in-court monologue on the goodness and necessity of dishonesty.
Emraan Hashmi tries the undertone tool to enact the super cool conman who flits from duplicating candidates and documents to leading a glitzy 5-star existence on the shoulders of a well-paid and well-oiled MBA degrees scam.
Despite the reality bites in the extra-marital romance he has with the leading lady of the film, the film is a stretched out, neither here nor there version of a badly fleshed out endeavour on screen.
