David

The story revolves around the lives of three Davids in three different parts of the world in three different eras.London, 1975: 30-year-old David (Neil Nitin Mukesh) works for Iqbal Ghani, a dreaded Mafia don who controls the Londons Muslim community through his illegal activities. David is Ghanis protege who is poised to take over the empire one day as Ghanis son is a spoilt, playful brat. David is in love with Ghanis ward, Noor and promises to marry her. Things take a turn when two undercover RAW agents come to London to expose Ghanis ties to religious extremists in India.

While trying to take David down, the agents reveal to him that his mother was Ghanis mistress and might have killed his father to be with him. Davids loyalty towards his master is tested even more when Noor is forcefully married off to Ghanis son to hide the fact he is gay even though she is pregnant with Davids son. When the RAW agents finally manage to get close to Ghani, they assassinate not only him but David as well to keep their mission a secret from the British authorities.Mumbai, 1999: 19-year-old David (Vinay Virmani) is an amateur guitarist born into a family of lower-middle class Christians. He is a happy go lucky teenager who dreams of becoming a professional musician and sending his sisters off to Dubai to pursue their dreams.

Their father, Noel, a Protestant priest rallies the locals to do charity work for those in need. A Hindu fanatic politician, Malati Tai, finds out about this and makes it appear as if Davids father is converting poor people to Christianity in return for money. She attacks Davids colony with the help of gangsters and humiliates Noel by blackening his face in front of the media. Traumatised by this, the priest starts to lose his mind. An angry David is then easily persuaded by a political activist to assassinate Malati at a rally to seek vengeance.

However, the plan is foiled when an unknown gunman fails to assassinate Malati and instead kills the army officer standing next to her.Goa, 2010: 30-year-old David (Vikram) is an alcoholic fisherman living in the small fishing village of Betul in Goa. He falls in love with the deaf and mute Roma (Isha Sharvani) the only hitch is that she is engaged to be married to his best friend Peter in 10 days. When he finds out Peter does not really love her but is only marrying her for her wealthy fathers boat which he will receive as dowry, David is coaxed by his friend, Frenny to stop the wedding. However, David comes to realise that his intentions might not be sincere as both his mother and the priest who tries to help him stop the wedding become involved in separate accidents and are hospitalised.

On the day of the wedding, David plans to profess his love for Roma until Peter reveals that he actually sincerely loves her and was only lying that he was marrying her for the dowry out of fear he would be teased. David decides not to stop the wedding.Gradually, it is revealed that all three Davids are connected somehow in the turn of events. In 1999, the London Davids son with Noor, Iqbal, comes to Mumbai to seek revenge for his fathers murder. The army officer killed at Malati Tais rally is actually one of the corrupt RAW agents who Iqbal shoots down with intent.

Witnessing the shooting makes the Mumbai David realise what he almost became had he succeeded in assassinating Malati. He then moves to Goa and becomes a priest. In 2010, he is the priest that marries off Peter to Roma. Realising that the Goan David would have spoken out against the wedding, he praises the Goan David for not doing so after the ceremony.Sukanya Verma for Rediff.

com has given 2.5/5stars and says David could have been shorter, snappier. Shivesh Kumar of IndiaWeekly awarded the movie 2 out of 5 stars. NDTV gave 3 stars to the movie. TimesofIndia described the movie as Yes, the Devils in the detail.

But maybe David needed more D of Depth in the story to make this more Delightful.