Star Performances
Deepal Shaw lives her role. She looks and acts the character of Rishika Gandhi to great perfection and shines in the meaty role. Akshay Singh does a fair job as her boyfriend. Kranti Jha is very natural as Soham, her friend in Bangkok. He has screen presence and is easy in front of the camera. Chetan Pandit plays his part beautifully. Jyoti Joshi does a good job. Nirmal Pandey is effective. Abhay Joshi lends able support. Abhijeet Lahiri is excellent. Pankaj Berry (in oversized and hopelessly ill-fiting coats) leaves a mark. Alok Nath is adequate in a brief role but his dialogues have been dubbed by another voice. Onkar Shinde is good as Rishika’s aeroplane friend. Amit Rai (as the friend who accompanies Rishika’s boyfriend to Bangkok) looks reasonably handsome and does a fair job.
Direction
Sachin P. Karande’s direction is quite nice and his narrative style does justice to the script. The film has no songs; background music is alright. Camerawork and other technical aspects are okay.
The Last Word
On the whole, Vikalp may be a fairly engrossing entertainer but what will come in the way of its box-office performance are several factors – lack of face value, a horrifyingly poor start, dull promotion and a weak title. It will fail to make any mark in spite of some merits.
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