Drishyam (2015)

So much average

One of my all time favorites.

i must have seen a different film!!

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Whilst taking part in the French film challenge on ICM in April,a friend told me about a Bollywood Thriller he had seen on Netflix. Finding the long run time to be an interruption with the challenge,I decided to save the title for viewing on the May Day Bank Holiday.View on the film:Re-making Jeethu Joseph's 2013 Malayalam film Drishyam, director Nishikant Kamat & cinematographer Avinash Arun gather round the Salgaonkar's with artful group shots that capture the sharp intake of breath over they each take over telling the correct lies. Digging up the family secrets, Kamat and Arun dip the film in deep red lights and long shadows that steam up a gritty atmosphere over the battle of wits between Vijay and Meera Deshmukh. Holding tightly on to his family, Ajay Devgn gives a great performance as Vijay, whose roar of aggression when family is threatened is threaded by Devgn with a calculating calmness.Swaggering in as her officers beat up suspects, Tabu gives a Inspector General Meera Deshmukh, who is attacked by Tabu with a brute attitude that gives the psychological and physical violence Deshmukh dishes out a sting that leaves her male officers hiding in the corner. Taking inspiration from Keigo Higashino's book The Devotion of Suspect X, the screenplay by Upendra Sidhaye spends the first half layering the bonds between the Salgaonkar's and thrillingly placing them on their slippery attempts to build alibi's for the murder. Making the lies of the family tight,Sidhaye takes the mystery to a dead-end,which leads to horrible wrong turns as Vijay trips himself to revealing all with poorly-written exposition being shoved into the dialogue and dimming the wickedly macabre twist ending, as the last shovel of dirt is placed on the family plot.

Not the Highest Grossing Movie. But Story is Great. It's Better than Grossing.

The film has used a lot of effects to increase the impact. But where it miserably fails is the absence or ignorance of crucial aspects:1. Underage children cannot be questioned by police without supervision. 2. How can the police target just one family so convincingly, just because one police constable is convinced that he saw Vijay in that yellow car. 3. Second round of Vijay going back to all the witnesses and the police reconfirming with all those witnesses looked very kids play. 4. There is no motive that the police even explored!! Wow. Better than Scotland Yard I would say.Hindi Cinema is basically either copycat or loose plots!!Again, where is the motive?

The unfateful night's chain of events leads to a massive police search headed by the stern and steely IPS Meera Deshmukh (Tabu).Tabu's acting is top-notch in multiple interrogation scenes throughout the movie with a distinct no-nonsense persona on display at all times.Ishita Dutta is remarkable in her Bollywood debut with a wide palette of emotions. Mrinal Jadhav plays the role of the innocent and adorable younger daughter splendidly, generating a few interspersed audience laughs.Rajat Kapoor has a knack for playing the upper-class, businessmen – roles and is casted perfectly as Tabu's husband. However his character is a bit monochromatic, probably due to the script.