Dobaaraa movie review: Anurag Kashyap, Taapsee Pannu’s time-travel saga is mildly engaging when not verbose
FirstpostDobaaraa is moderately thrilling and in parts genuinely frightening, but lacks the rootedness and heft that has come to be associated with Anurag-ness Language: Hindi In the year 2021, a young nurse named Antara Awasthi and her husband Vikas chance upon an old camera, television and cassettes in their home in Hinjewadi, Pune. Now, to salvage her present, Dr Antara Vashishta must figure out what happened when she accidentally, and with the best of intentions, disrupted Anay’s story in Dobaaraa, director Anurag Kashyap ’s visitation of the time-travel genre wrapped in a murder mystery. The title of the film is a play on words, doubling up as the Hindi “dobaaraa” meaning “again” and “do baarah ” or 12 minutes past 2 o’clock that is crucial in this plot. So yeah, Dobaaraa is mildly engaging and in parts frightening, but far bigger than the concern over what happens to Antara is this: why did Anurag Kashyap consider this film worth his while?