RGV is amongst the finest storytellers Bollywood has produced, no two opinions on that but I guess there has been an overkill of underworld films from RGV himself, everyone’s seen that and done with. While going to Contract, if one expects some serious insight into the nexus between Mumbai underworld and the terror network then RGV’s underworld-meets-terrorism flick is a major disappointment! At the best the film is a vendetta tale and how much more can you experiment with a genre that's beaten to death? Its time RGV should stop making any more films on the underworld.
Satya or for that matter Company, came at a time when the underworld subject wasn’t much explored in bollywood and RGV’s realistic, hard-hitting and at times shocking treatment of the subject caught the attention of the audience, and since then we have seen lots of movies based on underworld and now almost there is no part of the underworld, which is not cinematized.
RGV’s earlier films on underworld were comprehensive when it came to story, character sketches and how things played out, but the riveting and realistic effect of RGV’s earlier underworld films is conspicuously missing and the prime problem with Contract is that it's too superficial!
RGV, who seemed to have got his rhythm back to some extent with Sarkar Raj, fails to go above mediocrity with Contract. I don’t understand why RGV still keeps treading on the beaten track and comes up with yet another forgettable film!
In his blog RGV has said that he just wants to make “thousands of films” - and I am sure films like Contract will definitely help him achieve that quickly.
Its time RGV takes a cue from one of the lines from Contract where the hero says, “Faisle nahi unke natije galat hote hai” (It’s not decisions, but their outcome that goes wrong).
P.S: With ‘Phoonk’ RGV returns to yet another of his favourite genre of filmmaking, lets hope he doesn’t fumble again.
