Expectations

Director Amole Gupte is known for giving us some fantastic children based films. His association with 'Taare Zameen Par' and direction in 'Hawaa Hawaai' and 'Stanley Ka Dabba' is worth applauding. Thus, his latest film Sniff` despite of being a non-starcast film has some amount of expectations attached to it.

Story

'Sniff' is a story of a young kids Sunny Gill (Khushmeet Gill) who is suffering from a rare disorder due to which his smelling sensory buds are non-active. In a lab accident Sunny discovers his smell buds and that too with some extraordinary powers. Sunny can smell everything and anything. This unique habit of his managed to win some good friends. Meanwhile, the society in which Sunny lives witness a car robbery. Sunny with the help of his friends decides to find the real culprit.

The 'Glitz' Factor

The basic story idea is sweet and highly interesting. The movie starts on a right note by colourful displays of spices and vegetables in the title track, Khushmeet getting dog poop to the school, Khushmeet sniffing food of kids followed by the entire sweet related track by Sushmita Mukherjee and her henpecked husband, Society meeting and few such interesting scenes. The food shots have been passionately been shot.

The cinematography is of top notch. Editing is fine. The music is average and goes well with the flow of the film.

Khushmeet Gill is sweet and charms you with his innocence. Manmeet Singh, Sushmita Mukherjee and Surekha Sikri lend good support.

The 'Non-Glitz' Factor

The second half fails to create the right wonders. The lab accident is badly presented, followed by many repetitive sessions filled with back to back bad words. The entire culmination of the suspense track is not up to the mark. The fun quotient is highly missing in the second half. The wrongly brand promotion dilutes the fun of the film.

Director Amole Gupte comes up with his weakest scrip related to a super power of a small kid. The magic of his earlier films is nowhere to be seen in this movie. There is that sweetness in the film, but incomprision to his other works, Sniff` lacks the soul.

Gopal Singh and Suresh Menon were wasted.

Final 'Glitz'

'Sniff' leaves you with a foul smell as it lacks the magic of Amole Gupte films.

Rating: 1.5/5