The Networker Review
Aditya (Vikram Kochha) joins his friend Raghav (Rishabh Pathak) and a seasoned networker, Lallan (Durgesh Kumar), to start new businesses following the failure of his multi-level-marketing (MLM) company. Before running to Dubai with the investors’ money, they enlist a phoney MD and a motivational speaker to establish credibility.
High-stakes narratives of fraud and Ponzi schemes provide drama and intrigue for movies. Director Vikas Vishwakarma investigates in this comedy-drama how desperation transforms the duped into the liar in the realm of pyramid schemes.Aditya, left with little option after losing his family’s and investors’ money in a disastrous MLM effort, joins up with his friend Raghav and a seasoned networker, Lallan (Durgesh Kumar), to start a new company financed by a strong investor, Pradhan (Atul Srivastava). The first financing fast turns to settling past obligations and the project fails.
Aditya gets a new concept while dining in a restaurant with robotic servers: a phoney business vowing to create public services using AI robots. To gain public confidence, they appoint Pradeep Biswas (Ishtiyak Khan) as MD. The plan guarantees double profits and quickly amasses Rs 10,000 crore in investments. But it’s all a fake job; there are no robots, just a farce.
The objective is to close the business and reimburse only strong investors like Pradhan. Pradeep, driven by guilt, begs for his portion to launch a genuine company returning the daily investors who sacrificed all. In the end, the three of them runs away to Dubai but decides to repay money just to the “honest” investors.
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Written by Vikas Vishwakarma, the story is straightforward and predictable as ventures follow the same rise-and-crash cycle. The film never explores how the con really operates; the ease with which thousands of crores are raised seems improbable. Victims are hardly mentioned; one montage featuring generic characters like a guy unable to pay for his mother’s treatment, a student losing college entrance, and a wedding being called off covers their influence.
Vikram Kochhar, Durgesh Kumar, and Rishabh Pathak put forth fair performances. Though they can’t save a bad writing, Ishtiyak Khan and Brijendra Kala manage their eccentric parts with appeal.
Though it has an intriguing idea and comedic parts, the movie falls short in execution and depends on superficial storytelling, which stops the story from taking flight.
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