The subtle trickery of all the other characters is offset by Sohrab Handa, who stands tall as the insufferably loud and big-hearted man, an unfiltered bully. While everyone else has a secret of their own, Sohrab can’t hide his feelings. He is almost unrealistically unlikable and Vinay Pathak sinks his teeth into this role with gusto. While the role itself remains oddly off-center in this narrative, the seasoned actor never misses a note. Sohrab’s character and Vinay’s performance provide a great complementary energy to the narrative, where almost everyone else feels a little too duplicitous. There’s only one sequence where we see Sohrab’s soft, vulnerable side—and that moment, after an utterly satisfying climactic reveal, becomes the catalyst for how we readjust our lenses for Sohrab, how we see him, and what he means to the people around him.
