CAST: Sanjay Mishra, Vijay Raaz, Amol Parashar, Ashwini Kalsekar, Barkha Singh, Flora Saini

DIRECTED BY Ram Ramesh Sharma

WRITTEN BY: Subash Ghai

BLUF

Padmini Raj Singh the rich owner of 36 Farmhouse is unwell and could die at any time. She has willed her 300 acres and the palatial home she lives in to her son Raunak Singh but her other children disagree.

Then the lawyer goes missing and the rest of the plot unfolds with all extended family and characters being introduced.

A very 1970s plot but set in the middle of the pandemic when labor is making their way back home in a lockdown.

THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES

Penned by Subhash Ghai, the man behind love stories like Hero and Pardes, and dramatic movies like Ram Lakhan, Karma, Meri Jung, Aitraz,  Kalicharan, Taal, Vidhata and even Khalnayak. and more and then there is this.

With tropes that seem completely out of place in this day and age, it is very surprising that veteran actors like Sanjay Mishra, Vijay Raaz, Ashwini Kalsekar said yes to this project or the plot which presents them in characters we have seen them before in.

It might just be because they respect Mr. Ghai a lot.

Amol Parashar and Barkha Singh also have too superficial characters to portray, and you grow neither empathetic nor drawn towards any one’s story.

IN THE KNOW

 Laden with loopholes, the plot of 36 Farm House is like a reincarnation of a 70’s big cinema film for the benefit of the Netflix generation.

Ram Ramesh Sharma is not able to weave the storyline into anything organically and leaves a lot of unanswered plots during the confusion.

The murder mystery is so easy that even Bugs Bunny could have solved it, it didn’t need us spending almost 2 hours waiting for some redemption to give us a reason why we were watching it in the first place.

WHAT WE LOVED

The actors

WHAT WE MISSED

Every damn thing