Sergeant (2023)

Sergeant Nikhil Sharma suffers from severe depression after losing a limb while on duty. However, after meeting Monica, he gains confidence and vows to reclaim his previous life by solving a critical case. Will he be able to complete his mission?

This so-called cop drama takes itself too seriously, and it is all about Sergeant Nikhil Sharma, who is haunted by the memory of the death of his informant under his watch, and he becomes handicapped in his instinct to save the latter. Addicted to Sergeant alcohol and diagnosed with depression since the big change in his life, the man is reinstated as a cop, only for him to get obsessed over closing the case assigned to him before his injury. What he does not realize is that there has been a change of order in his station, and things will no longer work as he wants. How will his obsession come to an end, or will he finally find a way to channel his highly emotional side? As good as the plot sounds, and with the addition of depression and an emotionally charged protagonist, the actual movie turns out to be a slugfest. Nikhil is in mania over wanting answers about the case that collapsed right in front of his eyes, leading to two unwanted deaths, for which he takes the blame. The movie takes a great deal of time to get to this point and the aimless screenplay heads in a random direction with no clue how it will end. There are subplots about his mother supposedly being abused, a millionaire who is running a child prostitution racket, and Nikhil going through insecurities. The running time was still not enough to bring together these storylines and make this film a concrete product, because none of them were developed in the right way. It does not have a definite beginning or ending for the viewers to understand the entire stretch of the film. A 104-minute film is still short, and they managed to make the movie move at a snail’s pace because the screenplay had plenty of unnecessary scenes that could have been left behind on the editing table. We are not sure if that would have helped the movie sustain itself till the end. The story had the potential to produce an interesting psychological cop drama, but it was the Sergeant screenplay that ruined the film for good. The placement of the scenes and the pacing of the plot, coupled with an erratic direction, wrecked the movie.