People with a mental disorder are said to have extraordinary intelligence or talents that are prodigal. I guess nature is trying to strike a balance by making them socially unacceptable so that in their solitude they can exploit their gifts to cause great achievements and breakthroughs. Judgemental hai kya brings forth a character with a mental disorder called psychosis in which the individual has no control over their imagination, and loses control over reality. Kangana Ranaut as Bobby is in her element again as she is the queen of this particular character; that of the psychologically ill, society rejected, tortured soul. No one can challenge her mastery over the craft which she has honed to perfection since she started her career. This time too she gives a good performance. But there was a lack of connection between her character with the whole narrative. The director has done a brilliant job by delving deep into the psyche of the psychosis patient. He has tried to give us a taste of the experience that the sufferer is going through. We get it. But at some point it becomes repetitive and I, for example, felt a bit anxious while going through the depth of the disease sometime during the middle of the second half.
As Keshav played by Rajkumar Rao keeps bumping into Bobby and a mystery remains to be solved, the film occurs in a trance induced by a psychotropic drug. With the psychotic behavior, fluorescent colors and strange obsessions; the film jumps in and out of reality, spending most of the time in the mind of the psychotic patient. The mystery getting solved in that mind creates chaos, which is different, interesting and appreciated, but not satisfying. It's as if there is something lacking and incomplete. Raj Kumar Rao's performance further accentuates the incompleteness if the whole experience making it rather dry and superficial. A great idea and story that seriously lacks execution.
Rating - 2.75 / 5
