'Drishyam', directed by Jeethu Joseph is a highly engaging thriller about a family of 4 and the incidents that garble their otherwise normal lives.
Georgekutty(Mohanlal) is the owner-operator of a local TV Cable Service. He is stinginess personified (like his name would hint). The movie buff that he is, he knows the scenes and their dialogues from most movies like the back of his hand. He even goes to the extent of reviewing a car chase in a particular scene. This god-fearing innocent man is liked by all in his town (and the viewers are no different).
Rani(Meena) plays Mohanlal's wife and like any other wife, she is full of complaints and demands about her husband's stinginess, late night work and what not.
Things seem pretty much normal until one of their two daughters goes on a camp where she gets into a squabble with a rich brat. The boy pursues her to her hometown and with his video cam wrecks havoc only to get punished in the way he deserved. The rest of the plot is a cat and mouse game and the emotional settlement between two families who have been mutually pained.
The plot that follows, acquires serpentine proportions and begins to crawl beneath your skin, dragging you more and more into the setting much like a shepherd would haul his sheep. This near perfect script has been dealt with utmost care to seal off all loopholes the human mind could ever conjure up, contrary to the nonchalant treatments that grace thrillers these days.
With Mohanlal at his casual best and Meena at her wife-y best, this script earns an added impetus and is orbited into an altogether different height. Words of praise go to the perfectly cast Child actors, Asha Sharath and Siddique who all leave an everlasting impact on you. But no article on 'Drishyam' is complete without a mention to Kalabhavan Shajon who without doubt has broken all his stereotypical shackles and has come forward with a cracker of a performance. The nerve wrecking intensity that wraps the chemistry between Lal and Shajon in their combination scenes is an absolute delight to witness.
Sujith Vasudev's soap-washed visuals of the greenery render the perfect native mood that is demanded by the script. Ayoob Khan trims this thriller to perfection delivering one of the finest closing sequences in recent times. With delightful background scores, everything about this movie is going in the right direction.
The characters and visuals will remain etched in your mind even long after you leave the hall. 'Drishyam' is an insight into one of the unthinkable possibilities of a thriller that restores hope in this genre and dusts the scope for many a plot. A nail biting watch!
Georgekutty(Mohanlal) is the owner-operator of a local TV Cable Service. He is stinginess personified (like his name would hint). The movie buff that he is, he knows the scenes and their dialogues from most movies like the back of his hand. He even goes to the extent of reviewing a car chase in a particular scene. This god-fearing innocent man is liked by all in his town (and the viewers are no different).
Rani(Meena) plays Mohanlal's wife and like any other wife, she is full of complaints and demands about her husband's stinginess, late night work and what not.
Things seem pretty much normal until one of their two daughters goes on a camp where she gets into a squabble with a rich brat. The boy pursues her to her hometown and with his video cam wrecks havoc only to get punished in the way he deserved. The rest of the plot is a cat and mouse game and the emotional settlement between two families who have been mutually pained.
The plot that follows, acquires serpentine proportions and begins to crawl beneath your skin, dragging you more and more into the setting much like a shepherd would haul his sheep. This near perfect script has been dealt with utmost care to seal off all loopholes the human mind could ever conjure up, contrary to the nonchalant treatments that grace thrillers these days.
With Mohanlal at his casual best and Meena at her wife-y best, this script earns an added impetus and is orbited into an altogether different height. Words of praise go to the perfectly cast Child actors, Asha Sharath and Siddique who all leave an everlasting impact on you. But no article on 'Drishyam' is complete without a mention to Kalabhavan Shajon who without doubt has broken all his stereotypical shackles and has come forward with a cracker of a performance. The nerve wrecking intensity that wraps the chemistry between Lal and Shajon in their combination scenes is an absolute delight to witness.
Sujith Vasudev's soap-washed visuals of the greenery render the perfect native mood that is demanded by the script. Ayoob Khan trims this thriller to perfection delivering one of the finest closing sequences in recent times. With delightful background scores, everything about this movie is going in the right direction.
The characters and visuals will remain etched in your mind even long after you leave the hall. 'Drishyam' is an insight into one of the unthinkable possibilities of a thriller that restores hope in this genre and dusts the scope for many a plot. A nail biting watch!
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