The screenplay of the movie ‘Meeruthiya Gangsters’ is far beyond from being called convincing. There is nothing you might call extraordinary in the story. There is no concrete reason why you should waste your time on such a weird movie, which talks about nothing but kidnappings and earning money through unfair means. The screenplay of the movie shows multiple characters who are trying to keep the plot upbeat, but all you feel is stranded and lost and viewers feel what exactly is the script talking about and you keep wondering till the last why exactly are you watching such a boring movie. The movie makes no efforts to unveil the lives of the six protagonists. All you can catch in the film is loads and loads of liquor and not to forget, girls. The female characters are given nothing which they can execute. Jaideep Ahlawat and Aakash Dahiya are the only two familiar faces in the movie who deliver a decent performance to their characters in the movie. The newbies fail to leave any kind of impact on the audiences’ mind. Mukul Dev is at his worst in the entire movie while he is playing the role of an inspector. The same is the case with Nushrat Bharucha who does nothing noteworthy in the movie. Sanjay Mishra’s cameo in the film is the only saving factor. Zeishan Quadri being an amateur director misses many details and he is unable to save the movie from sinking. The movie is pathetic and not at all worth watching.

A loosely-written plot is the criminal. Zeishan, who has written the story and screenplay of the film, matches Kashyap in his eye for details. His real location shooting helps get the premise perfectly - be it a college in a small place like Meerut or Noida's offices built in deserted areas with nothing more than the building itself. As for the performances, all the actors are impressive and entertain with their quirky histrionics. Sanjay Mishra, Brijendra Kala and Mukul Dev especially lift up the movie with every minute of their presence in the film. While Mukul plays an unruly cop, Sanjay is a real estate businessman and Brijendra is one of the kidnapped victims of the Meeruthitya Gangsters. However, the movie fails because of its loosely-written story. Telling a convoluted saga of ambition, greed and friendship, Meeruthiya Gangsters fails to keep a grip on its central plot. The angles are bang on, but Zeishan fails to add gravity to his story that could have kept the audience hooked and involved with the story of his otherwise identifiable characters. Much of our disappointment stems from the fact that this comes from the same writer who penned Gangs of Wasseypur. Despite the good performances and a few quirky sequences, Meeruthiya Gangsters fails to develop the simplest of interest and this is one movie that we suggest you should skip. 

Co-presented by Anurag Kashyap, Meeruthiya Gangsters is a pretentious, frivolous tale of a group of good-for-nothing friends from Meerut, who by happen to become gangsters. It is a staged drama which is often seen in films from Mr Kashyap's stable. With a convoluted plot that laces around greed, ambition, romance and an easy way of living, the tale unravels how the college buddies get entangled in their own web, leading to their undoing. The characters are paradoxically over-smart simpletons and their idiosyncrasies - spiked with black humour - form a major aspect of their comic trail. The pitfall of this film is writer- director Zeishan Quadri's amateurishly penned script. The plot is formulaic and predictable. The female cast is used as the unconventional conduit to carry the story forward and to make it seemingly quirky. As far as performance is concerned, the ensemble cast sincerely tries to keep you entertained with their histrionics. However, their strained efforts seem theatrical and wasted. This is evident throughout the film and especially in the shootout scene between the police and the gangsters during the forcefully stretched climax scene. he music and the background score is just a distraction to enforce that this is a light-hearted film, not to be taken seriously. Overall, Meeruthiya Gangsters offers nothing exceptional.

The movie is so far from being the zippy crime caper it presumably set out to be that it leaves you stranded, wondering just what is going on. What better than to snatch people and demand ‘firauti’? This one-thread idea is stretched into a sketchy, tedious two hour- and- some enterprise, and proves once again, if proof were indeed required, that an idea needs to be backed by a solid story and treatment.  Transporting small-time ‘gundas’ to Meerut, and having them back-chat is not enough. There are competent actors in here : Sanjay Mishra has shown that he alone can be reason enough to watch a film, Brijendra Kala can be sharply wry, and Jaideep Ahlawat left a mark in ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’. A goon with dyed blond hair can be called ‘Foreigner’ ( in one of the few nice touches), a cop can strut around minus uniform, kidnapping can be turned into a profitable activity, and some of the chatter of these small-timers, who think nothing of switching big bore bullets for small, can be faintly funny. But these elements, few and far in between, cannot be turned into a full-fledged watchable film.

The only respite in Meeruthiya Gangsters is the sly humour writer-director Zeishan Quadri laces his lines with. Barring that, there is hardly a show of his inspired writing. A bunch of dreamy-eyed local goons creating havoc - is a story we've often explored on celluloid and has now ceased to be as inventive or impressive as before. Drawing from the baleful sphere, Quadri dishes out an insipid formulaic story that follows the routine of staple gangster sagas in Bollywood. Ever since Anurag Kashyap familiarised us with this sinister world in Gangs of Wasseypur, filmmakers have been churning out shabby clones of it. Since Quadri has been mentored by him, the loyal protege follows Kashyap's blueprint to the tee, and knows how to add the much-needed fun to salvage his film. For the first hour, cheeky dialogues create an appealing mirage but clenched-teeth swag, unnecessary kidnappings, needless buddy fall-outs and cop chases later, you feel drained. Quadri pilfers the essence of films we've watched and loved, but fails to bring in their stirring spunk. The primary problem here is that it doesn't remain dedicated to its central plot. Quadri adopts a non-linear mode of storytelling, which makes the narrative frequently lose plot. A few standalone scenes work, mostly the ones that render some comic relief, but the general lack of novelty makes it a tragic bore. Meeruthiya Gangsters has flashes of Quadri's brilliance, but the underwhelming script squanders all potential.