Sanjay Gupta has often been associated with the so called ‘Hollywood’ style of film making. Sanjay has a fascination for technique and style not many in India believe in. Now, with ‘Woodstock Villa’ Hansal Mehta directs debutants Sikandar and Neha Uberoi very much the Sanjay Gupta way.The film takes off with the kidnapping of a successful businessman’s wife (Neha Uberoi). The businessman (Arbaaz Khan) is soon threatened by the captor (Sikandar) for a heavy ransom. Things go wrong as the lady is murdered by someone and the captor in a fix buries the body. Soon things start to reveal itself with the re-appearance of the damsel.
Director Hansal Mehta goes very much the Hollywood style by trying to make his film look sleek be it the grainy look , the cinematography , the intensifying moments etc, but looses hold on the basics-the plot. Hansal definitely has got all the style elements in places be it the looks, bikes , cars , eye candy etc but the plot just intensifies and boils down to being pretty lame. Many will argue that the film boils down to a done to death concept.
