‘Looop Lapeta’ movie review: A run-down adaptation

Director Aakash Bhatia fuels Tom Tykwer’s ‘Run Lola Run’ with the mythical Satyavan and Savitri episode, and expects it to drive into the desi conscience... with middling results

Looop Lapeta is yet another example of the growing tribe of young filmmakers who like to bring a foreign film home. To make up for the lack of originality, they try to retrofit an indigenous emotion, but the impact of the art design and colour scheme or simply the styling of the original is so overwhelming that the cut-copy-paste job shows. The easy way to bypass the ifs and buts is to set the film in Goa, the exotic destination to sell a foreign product to the urban Hindi audience. If it is experimental, it has to be in Goa.

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Here director Aakash Bhatia fuels Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run with the mythical Satyavan and Savitri episode and expects it to drive into the desi conscience.