Lootera is partially based on O'Henry's short story, The Last Leaf. Partially, not because, it takes elements from the original and builds a story around it. But, because, the second-half of the movie is the short story itself.
Lootera is a lose attempt to integrate O'Henry's short story with a Bollywood pot-boiler about a thief and his love interest. Curious because in the attempt, the two halves of the movie look like two different short films that could be independent of each other. The only thing making them one film is the lead cast - Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha.
Unfortunately, the focus is so concentrated on the lead cast that the rest of the cast appear as nothing more than props. They enter and exit the stage merely to give these two people more things to brood or fight about.
Lootera could have been a good attempt; different from the regular Bollywood drama. But stuck between an attempt to be out of the ordinary and an adaptation, it becomes a long drag with minutes passing without much of the story progressing.
What could have been a human story ends being 2.5 hours of moving around in circles in an attempt to reach O'Henry's The Last Leaf.
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