Gaslight Movie Review

Thrillers are a tricky genre for Bollywood to handle. They either manage to wow the audience €” examples being Talaash (2012) and Gupt (1997) or they tend to backfire badly.

What Gaslight, which Kirpalani has co-written with Neha Veena Sharma, gets right – these do not add up to much anyway – is unable to offset what it messes up.

What a waste of a promising title and genuine opportunity to address a socio-psychological malady. Instead, there’s some yap on privilege and class divide.

But one of the best bits about Gaslight is the twist pe twist in the end. The film blooms in the last 15 minutes and we are not complaining because that is where all the unravelling happens in thrillers.

But despite the partially smart script and the performances, Gaslight drags because of its rather slow pacing.

Spooky palaces, lonely girl, notorious family members and buried truth… Gaslight has all the ingredients that could make for an engaging thriller.