Director: Vinta Nanda
Rating: *
Koel Purie has a nice blithe presence. Very unusual, post-modern, in-your-face and full of attitude—something which can be made to work very well on the silver screen, in the niche film circuit for sure. Unfortunately, White Noise does not prove to be an adequate stage for her. In many ways, the film uses her too much, wrenching emotions out of her in every frame, making her move from one intense moment to another. So much so that in the one-and-a-half-hour-long viewing you start asking for a break, for her sake, and your own as well.
Gauri (Koel) is a TV serial writer trying to start afresh after a broken relationship with a married TV producer. The film then is a journey into finding a personal nirvana and banks heavily on the play of emotions. But its implicit intensity never strikes a chord with the audience. Far from feeling Gauri's sadness and depression, you are weighed down by it and want to flee....
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