Prince
- Director
- Lekh Tandon
- Studio
- Mehboob StudioVijaya Studio
- Release Date
- 1 January 1969
- Running Time
- 137 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹4.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹4.00 Cr
Review
"Prince" attempts to weave amnesia and neural implants into a heist thriller, but stumbles under the weight of its own convoluted premise. Director Anurag Kashyap—or whoever's at the helm here—fails to establish coherent narrative logic when the film's central mechanic (memory loss upon sleep) becomes more of a plot device than a genuine constraint on storytelling. The performances feel caught between playing sincerity and melodrama; what could've been a taut, *Memento*-like descent instead becomes a series of reveals that feel arbitrary rather than earned. The film borrows heavily from amnesia thrillers but lacks the disciplined structure that made Nolan's work so effective, instead piling on betrayals and identity swaps that exhaust rather than engage.
The real issue is pacing and clarity. By the second act, audiences are drowning in competing factions—multiple Mayas, Sarang's shadowy presence, medical conspiracies—without ever understanding the emotional stakes beneath the mechanics. The coin MacGuffin feels weightless compared to Prince's deteriorating mind, which should be the beating heart of this narrative. A film about a man literally losing himself needs to make us *feel* that dissolution; instead, we're shuffled through action sequences and plot reversals that prioritize shock value over character coherence. The film needed to commit either to intimate psychological horror or globe-trotting heist energy—instead, it straddles both unconvincingly.
Rating: 4/10
Storyline
So there's this super talented thief named Prince who wakes up one day with complete amnesia—he's got zero memories of who he is or what he's done. He stumbles into a nightclub and meets someone claiming to be his girlfriend Maya, but then another woman also shows up saying she's Maya and that they're actually working undercover for the cops. She tells him they need to find this mysterious coin and hand it over to some guy named Sarang, which will supposedly help them catch him. Things get really complicated when Prince discovers there are actually multiple people in his life, some working against him and some trying to help, and nothing is quite what it seems on the surface.
It turns out that the whole situation is way more twisted than Prince initially thought. The chip that was implanted in his brain is causing him to lose his memory every single time he falls asleep, and it's basically destroying his mind. The real Maya, his actual girlfriend, finally comes clean and explains that Sarang had this chip put inside Prince to control him and make him work as a thief. Now Prince is running out of time—he's got maybe days left before the chip completely destroys his brain, and he's experiencing unbearable pain every time he wakes up.
Prince and Maya are now on a desperate race against the clock to find the one coin that might be able to save his life before it's too late. Serena, who's actually working for Sarang, is hot on their trail and won't stop at anything to catch them. It becomes this intense, high-stakes chase where Prince has to use all his cunning and skills to stay alive while Maya stands by his side.
