Despatch Review: Manoj Bajpayee, Shahana Goswami’s Film Is A Grim Dispatch Of Unrealistic Noir
Mumbai, the city of dreams and crime, serves as both stage and character in Despatch, a noir film that sacrifices plausibility for shock value. Bookended by brazen daylight shootouts, it attempts to tell a story of investigative journalism gone wrong, but while the bullets hit their mark, the narrative misses.