Setters (2019)

Setters: Directed by Ashwini Chaudhary. With Shreyas Talpade, Aftab Shivdasani, Sonnalli Seygall, Ishita Dutta. A thriller set in Benares, Jaipur, Mumbai and Delhi, Setters is about a racket profiteering from academic scams. The film follows a cat-and-mouse game between two good friends: one a cop, and the other a “setter” who arranges brilliant students in place of weak students to appear in examinations.

“Setters – Setters is about a framework of criminals that either leaks question papers of competitive exams, or ensures proxy candidates to replace weak students to take such exams.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is also about digital transformation of the infrastructure to ensure seamless and superlative customer journeys so that the frontline experience is rich and rewarding, no matter how the back-end engine room manages to achieve the same. This must make you wonder if itu0026#39;s a paragraph meant for some mumbo-jumbo about banking. Not really, Setters tells us that itu0026#39;s the same wave of technological progress that is transcending all industries, with the single minded objective of enhancing revenues, not just Fintech u0026amp; Banking.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eComing back to Setters, itu0026#39;s the cat and mouse chase between the criminals and the police that builds up a frantic and exciting first half and then replaying the same concept twice, poor script and editing in the second half deflates the tempo and conclusion. Shreyas Talpade is impressive nevertheless, and Aftab Shivdasani is all brawn and deadpan serious. Pawan Malhotra is meant to be the villain, either using cliched dialogues or grimacing, but suffers from a poorly written role. No one else in the otherwise talented cast has anything special to offer.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSetters may be factual where the criminals are always a step ahead of the law, but the film depicts a rather contrived plotline to expose the serious business. It fails to drive home the point that this framework deprives the deserving candidates from qualifying by ensuring that mediocre but resourceful individuals get to the top. It sadly sets a glamorous tag to the profession and makes the police look like mere spectators. 4 STARS!”