I have been an Ajay Devgan fan for a long time. He didn’t make much of a splash early on after his first movie, but he is one of the few actors who could carry a non-romantic, non-typical Bollywood movies to the top of the charts.
I had no idea what Drishyam was about, but Devgan and Tabu in the lead were promising enough to spend some money on the movie. I was not and you too will not be disappointed with Drishyam.
Set in rural Goa, the movie has all the ingredients of a thriller. The movie is slow to start and by the end of first half hour you will start saying – “OK, I get it, Salgaokar is a simple, honest family man. Now move on!”
But the patience pays off, and pays off well. The movie will soon suck you in and hold you to the screen after that. Once the story takes off, the director builds enough tension to keep you on the edge of the seat.
Drishyam
Director: Nishikant Kamat Writers: Jeethu Joseph (original story), Upendra Sidhaye (adapted by) Stars: Ajay Devgn, Shriya Saran, Tabu
There are a few songs now and then. The soundtrack moves with the story and the music complements the mood of the movie at the particular juncture.
In spite of absence of high adrenalin action sequences, high powered chases, or elaborate gun fights, the movie gets your heart racing in the second half.
Most movies start out strong and fail to hold the momentum going. However, Drishyam gradually grows on you in the first half, and suddenly changes gears in the second half, and maintains the high adrenalin state to the end.
Agreed, Slagaokar is a family man and will go to any lengths to protect his family. But who put him in that position? The perpetrator who threatened his family? Or is the society and the sluggish justice system that filled the family with fear of public exposure?
Perhaps it is the unapproachable Police that Bollywood has managed to portray as the root of all evil in 60 odd years of cinema.
Or maybe it is the current state of media which decides to milk every misery, catastrophe, and emotion to squeeze out the last penny out of an incident.