Cast: Radhika Apte, Sumeet Vyas, Angana Roy, Rajesh Sharma
Director: Anushree Mehta
By Smita Pal| The lead actress (Radhika Apte) plays a dutiful homemaker with an ‘undercover’. Who has a chauvinist husband, Deb Das (Shaheb Chatterjee). He thinks Durga has no right to refuse his orders for a school-going kid and his in-laws, Biswajeet Chakraborty and Laboni Sarkar.
Her husband owns what looks like a shop that sells vintage. His views on women, too, are vintage. His mother (Laboni Sarkar), Durga’s mother-in-law, is far more progressive and encourages her to do whatever her heart desires. Then one fine day, her ex-boss Rangeela (Rajesh Sharma) convinced her to resume her duties.
Mrs. Undercover opens to a deserted restaurant where a lawyer (Amrita Chattopadhyay) awaits the arrival of her date for the evening. It turns out her date is the serial killer; his demeanour was enough to suggest as much. But he does not waste much time killing the woman.
Then one after another, brutal killings shook the city until Durga (Radhika Apte) appeared to save the day.
Radhika Apte does whatever she can to sound like a Bengali housewife happy to perform her domestic duties.
Rajesh Sharma, who is a versatile actor, makes futile efforts to make a half-baked role work. A daft plot and amateurish filmmaking combine to make Mrs. Undercover a forgettable action comedy.
Directed by Anushree Mehta with a script jointly written by her and Abir Sengupta, Mrs. Undercover would have been infinitely better off had it stayed on paper.
The film is currently streaming on Zee5.
