Radhika is an investigative journalist working on a story about the traffic offenders at a particular flyover who move the divider blocks to take a U-turn. One night, the police interrogate her in a murder mystery. When she informs them about her extensive research, the police inquire about her findings. And in a shocking revelation, the police find out that all those offenders that she tracked were also murdered.
U-Turn is the remake of a Kannada film with the same title but this supernatural thriller heavily relies on two pluses. One is the story and the other is Alaya F‘s performance. U-Turn has an interesting story because the idea covers many interesting elements like a particular traffic violation, its offender and the victims, journalism, police, crime investigation, superstition, suspense, and super-naturalism.
This is my second experience of Alaya’s acting and I must say that she is really impressive in applying behavioral attitude and body language of the character that you can observe when the police interrogates her, her immediate reaction when the body falls on the police’s vehicle, when she almost had a pedestrian accident, or her series of getting scared of unnatural appearances.
Besides these two pluses, U-Turn struggles to compel me for any impression. And that’s the problem with the low-budget films. Good stories fail to sell if the direction has no impact. And the final act of the film is a let-down. The film in its entirety loses towards the motive.
U-Turn guarantees fresh idea about the story but that is because it is remade and is not an original content. The film could have been much better than presented.
RATING 5/10
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Sami Naik | Film Critic 