Movie review ‘Sharp Shooter’: ‘Dark’ comedy

Director: Ghouse Peer

Cast: Julie Lakshmi, Diganth, Sangeetha Chauhan, Chikkanna, Sudharani, Satyajith, Lokesh

Rating: 2.5 stars

A beautiful advocate suffering from ‘Nyctophobia,’ a type of phobia characterised by a severe fear of the dark accidentally falls in love with a hunk suffering from Nyctalopia, which is commonly known as night blindness! Love is indeed blind here, and even the director has hardly opened his eyes to blend the blind love making it into a comedy. The night blindness characters which was so far restricted to comedians in the past, has taken the centre stage for Sharp Shooter which misses the target in darkness.

The director, Ghouse Peer has definitely visualised a promising story which is apt for comedy but falters entirely in the making of it. As a result the audience go blind searching for humour. The escapades of the protagonist Jedarahalli Kannappa alias JK portrayed by Diganth, suffering from night blindness is the crux. It has an added burden of one the usual flash backs – the killers of heroine’s parents. Later the killers appear as dons from Dubai!

It seems like the director on a new moon day has accidentally webbed a connection between nyctophobia and nyctalopia and laughed his heart out, inspiring him to shoot the same with bullets laced with comedy. However, the bullets fired by him have missed the ‘humour’ part while taking on the audience for his target practice. Apart from the hot Aindrita Ray featuring in a ‘special number’ along with Diganth and a couple of other songs, Sharp Shooter misses the intended target completely, and is another ‘stale’ of a comedy misadventure.