Review : 7 Khoon Maaf
Based on Ruskin Bond's novel, Susanna's Seven Husbands, 7 Khoon Maaf deals with Priyanka Chopra's quest for love with seven different men at different stages of her life. How does she dispose of each previous husband? Murder.
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7 Khoon Maaf, based on a short story by Ruskin Bond, is about a woman's quest for love. Only this woman, Susanna played by Priyanka Chopra, unerringly manages to find and marry the worst candidates, not once but six times, says NDTV's Film Critic Anupama Chopra.
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Thankfully Susanna has more texture. She is a chameleon – vulnerable and tearful in one moment and an unfeeling viper in the next. Susanna is vain and cruel and Priyanka doesn't try to soften her. Instead she revels in the chance to go twisted, dark and frankly ugly. But beyond a point, even she can't prop up the sagging plot.
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The transitions from one husband to the next are nicely done as is the rollicking number Darling. But eventually the film becomes such a slog that when interval arrives with the warning that there are four more husbands to go, it almost feels like a threat.
