Review: The Girl On The Train: Derailed drama - INDIA New England News
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY Don’t sit on the edge of your seat as you watch this, you might just fall off dozing. They needn’t worry about comparisons, there’s scope for none. Ribhu Dasgupta’s Bollywoodised rehash (oops, adaptation) of Paula Hawkins’ bestseller of the same name is too lazy to recreate the slow-burn shock value of the novel and banks on a tangle of too many inconsequential twists. Hawkins’ written work, an intensely psychological piece, was always a challenge to recreate on screen. A lot of the ‘action’ in the book is actually internalised and it unfolds as thought ...
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