Hari shares this information with his friend and fellow doctor played by Mukesh. But his wise counsel does not help Hari even a bit. Things go out of control by the end of first half as Malavika goes missing.
The story credited to the director goes on a different tangent in the second half making it outright preachy and sermonising and least interesting from the viewers perspective, not only showing chatting on the Net and cell phones in bad light, it even targets the modern urban phenomenon of malls where youngsters go wayward.
Anoop Menon does his best to look convincing as the father of a teenager, and somehow succeeds (we just wish he had a solid ground to stand on). Asif Ali gets a mentor like character that is laced with humour. All other actors feel like walking through their parts.
On the whole, 916 ends up just being preachy at the cost of telling a good story.
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