The core story of '18 Pages' is about a boy loving a girl through her diary without even seeing her and how it transformed him. Siddharth Aka Siddhu (Nikhil Siddhartha) is an IT employee who just comes out of his breakup. He finds an old diary written by Nandini (Anupama Parameswaran). As he keeps reading the diary, Siddhu falls for Nandini for her magnificent persona. After 18 Pages in Nandini's diary, Siddhu didn't find anything in it and wants to find about Nandini. Who is Nandini ? What happened to her ? Did she know about Siddhu ? Answers for these questions forms the rest of the story.
Altogether, 18 Pages has a novel plot at its core. But the treatment and narration makes it flat for most of the times. It fails to generate the impact where it needed. It is a different attempt for sure but it lacks strong scenes and character development to engage audiences along with the lead characters. After a decent first half the graph in the second half falls and it deviates from the theme during the final parts. On a whole, only a few pages seem endearing in this expected to be a hearttouching tale of love. Considering all these elements, ConiJosh goes with a 2.5 Rating for 18 Pages.
