One Friday Night

Name: One Friday Night
Director: Manish Gupta
Genre: Film
Released: 2023-07-28
Rating: 2
Cast: Raveena Tandon, Milind Soman

Directed by Manish Gupta

TezScore40/100 Unfavourable reception Unfavourable Early coverage · 1 scored of 1 Indian-media review How TezScore works IMDb 4.9/10

92 min 28 Jul 2023

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Synopsis

One Friday Night

Business tycoon Ram Verma (Milind Soman) and his gynaecologist wife Dr Lata Verma (Raveena Tandon) are happily married for 20 years. But they do not have children. Unknown to his wife, Ram has an extramarital affair with a young dancer named Nirosha Patel(Vidhi Chitalia). He takes Nirosha to his farmhouse telling Lata that he's going to Nagpur on business purpose. Before they reach the farmhouse it starts heavily pouring that soon leads to a flood like condition. Upon reaching the farmhouse Nirosha calls her mother and learns from her that she's in dire need for money. Nirosha requests Ram to lend her the money. In reply Ram opens a chest that is full of currency notes and says that all this money now belongs to her. Lata learns from TV news that Nagpur is heavily flooded and all the offices are closed. She rings up Ram to know the exact situation there. In the meantime Nirosha reveals that she's two months pregnant. Ram feels ecstatic to know that he's going to be a father for the first time and expresses his wish to keep the baby. The farmhouse servant Govind overhears their conversation and his face shows silent disapproval. Ram wants to celebrate this occasion with his favourite pastries. He tells Govind to take his car and go to the market which was 40 km away, to buy pastries. Govind doesn't want to leave the house in this weather but cannot disobey the master's command.

Director: Manish Gupta
Release: 28 Jul 2023
Run time: 92 min
Language: Hindi

Cast & crew

Raveena Tandon Cast

Milind Soman Cast

Manish Gupta Director

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Pinkvilla Rishil Jogani

★★★★★ ★★★★★ 2/5 2023-07-28

What doesn't work: One Friday Night is amateurly written and executed. The dialogues are simply poor. Despite being a short film, there are a number of scenes that just feel unneccessarily long and tedious. The majority of the cast acts unconvincingly, making me as a viewer almost feel disengaged through the film's proceedings. Performances: Milind Soman and Raveena Tandon give very basic performances. There's visibly a lack of prep that the two have put in for their part in the film. Milind in the emotional scenes just isn't good. Vidhi Chitalia as Niru plays the role of a playful young woman with sincerity. However, she too doesn't shine as she gets trapped in the mediocrity of the film. Final Verdict: One Friday Night is a disengaging thriller-drama with underwhelming performances. Better writing, execution and performances would have gone a long way in making the film watchable.

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