REVIEW 9 SAMAY: When Time Strikes (2003)

  GENRE- Crime, Thriller, Drama

  Streaming On- Amazon Prime

  Language- Hindi

  CAST- Sushmita Sen as ACP Malvika Chauhan, Sushant Singh as Satya, Jackie Shroff as Amod Parekh.

  Directed by- Robby Grewal

  Release Date- 10th October, 2003.

Plot- ACP Malvika Chauhan, a widowed mother, is assigned to investigate the murder of a businessman. However, she suspects it to be a serial killer as more murders take place in the city. Can she trace the killer and save other victims before time runs out?

  Review- 'Samay' is one of the best movies of 2003. It stars the beauty queen Sushmita Sen in one of the most meaningful roles of her career. She plays the role of an intelligent cop who is assigned the task of solving the murder of a wealthy businessman. She begins to unearth every clues linking her to the killer.

But before she could solve the mystery of the businessman's homicide, another murder takes place. This time a leading actress of the film industry has been murdered. To make matters worse, a famous contract-killer of the city has also been killed. 

The movie is extremely captivating right from the beginning. When the early 2000’s had a lot of romantic superhit movies, this was the first movie I have seen that broke the usual stereotypical culture of useless songs and dance numbers. There is only one song in the movie, 'Laila Laila' but it was necessary to establish the moves of the second victim before she was murdered. 

'Samay' scores in almost every department. Cinematography was good and the editing was well-paced. The supporting casts were equally good as the lead cast. Sushant Singh was competitive and so were Dinesh Lamba and Rajesh Khera.

Jackie Shroff, as the serial killer was ‘bang on’. Though his screen time was pretty less but his presence could be felt every time. Sushmita Sen, looked amazing as a cop.

I don’t know why this movie didn’t work at the theatre. My all time favourite movie. And I highly recommend this.

  PROs-

l Great cinematography for early 2000’s.

l Different plot.

l Amazing cast and performance.

l No useless romance and songs.

  FINAL RATING-  9/10

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VERDICT-   One of the best Crime movies that glues you to the seat. Must watch.