Lockdown review: Srabanti Chatterjee is the only impressive character in this Bengali film, that too till an extent

2/5

Story:

The story of three lives run parallel in Lockdown. All of them are connected to one place - the hospital. Set in COVID-19 lockdown, the movie Lockdown is the story of three lives being at stake. Will they be able to live in the tough times?

Review:

Not all films featuring Srabanti Chatterjee and Sohum Chakraborty are good and Lockdown is the biggest example of that. These two actors try to bring something to the movie in the limited liberty they have as actors but that is all there is to this movie.

The story is nothing but a drag from scene one to the last and so, you cannot expect anything out of this Lockdown. It definitely doesn't change your life 360 degrees, unless you talk about us, who have to sit through more than two hours to keep waiting for something to happen and still, nothing happens.

Lockdown has a very day-to-day feeling, especially since COVID-19 chaos began. Three stories run parallel from each other in this one.

The music does build suspense in this film but the real story unfolds very late. On top of it, this story isn't very powerful to live through the stretched suspense.

Srabanti Chatterjee as a prostitute named Madhubala leaves an impression with her first scene itself. It is a little over-the-top but that is expected given her character.

Sohum Chakraborty's character is intriguing but it builds extremely slowly. Pallavi Banerjee ()'s story makes it seem unnatural. She talks without reason and their bond is focused on. A simple task of sanitization is stretched to the extent that it gets too much to tolerate.

There is literally nothing interesting happening in the series. While Madhubala's story is livelier than most, it also cannot save the rather weak plot.

The story does get better but only slightly and it is too late (in the last 30 minutes). However, nothing out-of-the-ordinary really happens and so, you keep waiting for something till the end but it never happens.

Verdict:

There was no strong reason to make a film like Lockdown. The story simply never takes off and when it does, in the last half an hour of the movie, it's just a moment of hope that goes back into the disaster of a film. Please skip this one. We already have a lot of trauma due to COVID-19 to take more of it through a film on it.