This movie puts paid to the notion that the OTT platform will produce better Hindi films. With Rajkumar Rao, Huma Quereshi, Radhika Apte in lead roles, I thought this would be a great watch. Alas, I was wrong. From the opening scene where a man is mudered by someone in a factory using a robotic arm that lifts, the film is wierd. It's based on a Japanese novel, where the robotic arm thing might work, but in the Indian setting, the robot is a tacky looking thing without any context. They shouls have staged the murder in a dairy plant instead.

After the totally confusing opning scene, the story moves quickly. In fact, it moved too quickly, giving us no chance to figure out the characters that are introduced in rapid succession. Three directors of this robot company plot to murder the chairman's slutty secretary (Huma Quereshi, with the name Morica Machod. Such a mean dig) who they've all slept with and who is now blackmailing them. This sounds like an interesting enough story when you tell it, but the execution is terrible. Bad screenplay, poorly written dialouge. There's just so much the actors can do, given the material.

This not really film noir by a long stretch. The body count is so high, with a new murder every ten minutes, that it seems like a Rambo film. The one good thing about the movie is its running time of only 2 hours. I watched it through the bitter (very silly) end, just so I could write this review in all fairness. Monica O My Darling has put me off watching Hindi movies and serials on OTT for the next ten years at least.