Dacoit review

April 10, 2026 Editor - Global Movie Reviews 0

 This Adivi Sesh-Mrunal Thakur starrer is a missed opportunity in the guise of a thriller

Dacoit review: This over-the-top film is too filmy for its own ambitions. Adivi Sesh and Mrunal Thakur bring some earnestness, but Anurag Kashyap is wasted.

Dacoit

Director: Shaneil Deo

Cast: Adivi Sesh, Mrunal Thakur, Anurag Kashyap

Rating: ★★

Situation: bullets slicing through the air, an entire police force closing in, a rifle as your only defence, and your partner right beside you. High stakes, right? Not in the world of Dacoit. Here, right in the middle of what should be chaos, everyone politely pauses for a five-minute conversation between the hero and heroine. The cops hold their fire. The hero delivers his lines like it’s a stage play, not a shootout. Urgency takes a backseat, drama takes over, ‘jaanu’ arrives before ‘jaan’.Cinematic liberty, did someone say? Yeah, that can be taken when the rest of the film entertains you enough to stay seated.

Directed by Shaneil Deo (and written by Deo and Sesh), the story kicks off with a convicted murderer, Hari (Adivi Sesh), breaking out of jail and planning to take revenge on Juliet (Mrunal Thakur), his former girlfriend who betrayed him and aided in his conviction years earlier. Hari plans to loot a hospital and get Juliet arrested for it. However, circumstances play out differently- and there is a twist in the offing. What happens forms the rest of the plot.

A tried but not tested plot

Dacoit’s biggest flaw is how relentlessly generic its storytelling feels. This is a plot we’ve seen far too often: two people fall in love, one walks away, the other seeks revenge, they reunite, sparks reignite, and everything unfolds exactly as expected. The first half takes its own sweet time setting up the romance between Mrunal and Sesh, but in doing so, it focuses on too many phases of their relationship and loses focus. Set in the COVID times, the film lacks conviction. There’s an entire track about corruption that ultimately led nowhere.

The music of this bilingual by Bheems Ceciroleo doesn’t make much impact, with Touch Buddy featuring Jonita Gandhi and Pawan Singh being the weakest of the lot. The action wasn’t as exhilarating as a thriller film should have been.Overall, Dacoit keeps threatening to take off but never quite leaves the runway. It has all the noise, but none of the lift. By the end, you are not on the edge of your seat, just mildly restless, wondering what could have been if the film had matched its own ambitions.

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