A retired Ranchi High Court judge, Justice Tyagi (Anupam Kher) turns a vigilante as he recognizes that he has not been able to mete out justice in a series of cases due to the lack of evidence. He hunts down a number of individuals from various walks of life and professions, kidnapping and torturing them to admit to their crimes. The local police authorities led by Inspector Sharma (Kumud Mishra) are unable to trace those kidnapped, therefore the Crime Branch sends Laxmi Rathi (Esha Gupta) to investigate the missing people and take the seemingly unrelated incidents to a logical conclusion. She eventually connects the dots and does apprehend the kidnapper, unearthing the plot cleverly whilst maintaining a smoke screen that baffles Tyagi.
It's a film with a few interesting twists and one wonders how the individuals being kidnapped are linked, but the script lets it down. The link when revealed in the end, largely loses its relevance and the judge's modus operandi was highly predictable from the beginning. The film has a number of spoilers, but I am not going to detail them, but cannot help asking if Indian Crime Branch officers have to account for the number of bullets they used from their service revolvers and whether such bullets can be matched to their source. "One Day" in the end turns out to be an average thriller that fails to keep you on the edge with an underwhelming and simplistic climax that suits everyone concerned. Anupam Kher and Kumud Mishra are impressive but Esha Gupta hams, pouts, delivers her lines in a strange sing-song manner in an attempt to get her native accent right, which wasn't necessary to the character or the film.
It's a film with a few interesting twists and one wonders how the individuals being kidnapped are linked, but the script lets it down. The link when revealed in the end, largely loses its relevance and the judge's modus operandi was highly predictable from the beginning. The film has a number of spoilers, but I am not going to detail them, but cannot help asking if Indian Crime Branch officers have to account for the number of bullets they used from their service revolvers and whether such bullets can be matched to their source. "One Day" in the end turns out to be an average thriller that fails to keep you on the edge with an underwhelming and simplistic climax that suits everyone concerned. Anupam Kher and Kumud Mishra are impressive but Esha Gupta hams, pouts, delivers her lines in a strange sing-song manner in an attempt to get her native accent right, which wasn't necessary to the character or the film.