‘Drishyam 2’ movie review: Such remakes be copies, no?

Film Drishyam 2Director Abhishek PathakActorsAjay Devgn Tabu Akshaye KhannaRating 25Most importantly first off This is a film that will thoroughly keep you engaged as a solid smartly structured suspensedrama with enough surprises throughout Now thatrsquos enough for you to know And ideally step into the theatre right away anywayThat is if you havenrsquot watched writerdirector Jeethu Josephrsquos original in Malayalam starring Mohanlal Ideally donrsquot But as an audience how do I lsquounseersquo what I haveNow with plays for instance absolutely the same script is performed by different theatre companies on stage Nobody minds But a movie is different In the sense that once performed a picture remains recorded for posterity This is why we watch remakes yes But they ought to be inspirationsadaptations mdash not the same thing frickinrsquo all over againBut hey why diss this film alone on that count mdash when that was equally true for Drishyam 2015 the prequel directed by Nishikant Kamat also starring Ajay Devgn Tabu Kamat is no more Drishyam 2 looks at the same plot eight years henceAlso ReadGoing forward from Drishyam 2 a busy 2023 beckons TabuHerersquos what you already know before entering this film There was a case of revengeporn between a young boy and a girl The boy was an extortionist He got killed The boyrsquos mom Tabu was a topcop herself The girlrsquos father Devgn took care of this dead boyrsquos bodyThis was in a sense a perfect murder with sufficient alibi crafted by the actual culprits Nobody knows behindthescenes of this mystery Itrsquos this police case that is getting reopened in a way with the sequelA lot of us loved the Bollywood remake of the Mallu Drishyam Whatrsquos changed since Check the year the first part came out in 2015 No Hindi viewer I knew then had seen Josephrsquos Mohanlal starrer 2013 Then exploded OTT platforms around 2016Even then so the original Malayalam movie wasnrsquot in any major streaming service when its 2021 sequel premiered on Amazon Prime Video during the pandemic mdash when all eyes were glued to whatever qualitycontent we could find for home entertainmentNow OTTs and multiplexes will coexist But their audiences are the same And if yoursquove seen the Mallu Drishyam 2 mdash you donrsquot expect the Hindi adaptation to be exactly the same too There canrsquot be such hullabaloo over something so hubahu Whatrsquos the difference between adaptation and copy for a remake even if onersquos paid for the rightsTo quote most recent instances Laal Singh Chaddha 2022 is an adaptation of Forrest Gump 1994 You can catch both without either screwing up the eventual experience in theatres or Netflix The Hindi Vikram Vedha 2022 on the other hand is a straight copy of the Tamil Vikram Vedha 2017Sure the directors PushkarndashGayathri are also the same mdash merely supplanting the film to Uttar Pradesh capturing no change in the social context as a result either Audiences have full access to both movies The screen worldrsquos changing Thatrsquos my limited pointLikewise Kochi Goa in Hindi Drishyam among Marys Angelos of the world thatrsquos it Goa is also where the protagonist Devgn is working towards producing a Bollywood film Hersquos spent a lot on hiring an accomplished screenwriter Only that hersquos been sitting on the prized script for yearsUnlike OTTs and theatres since books and movies have a separate audience as per the lead character hersquos also published the script in a book form to avoid copyright issues laterAlso ReadThis is what Vatsal Sheth felt about Ajay Devgnstarrer Drishyam 2The original Drishyam itself was allegedly inspired by Japanese Keigo Higashinorsquos crime novel The Devotion of Suspect X mdash a charge writerdirector Joseph vehemently denied including in court The idea for the sequel mdash copsrsquo hunt for a young deadbody missing for several years mdash could well be the Sheena Bora murder case Of course no further similarities thereafter existThis is in fact a killer original script with just the best final 15 minutes of a movie I know Who delivers you to this firstrate climax mdash the competent director Abhishek Pathak of course But more so the addition in the cast I feltThat being Akshaye Khanna brought in for full swag mdash playing inspector general of police who steps out of a Fortuner for an official vehicle Khanna is often criticized for his wellloved stock expressions on screen One he moves away from them often enough Also he makes sure to remain scarce on screen himself for his presence to be such a pleasure almost alwaysAs the superplot progresses you can hear audiences adequately reacting to the pushes and pulls the twists and turns in the hallYup this sequel is actually better than part one The Hindi copy feels tighter than the Mallu Drishyam 2 in parts as well mdash just wish hadnrsquot seen it though No excitement or suspense left for me sadly

‘Drishyam 2’ movie review: Such remakes be copies, no?

Film: Drishyam 2
Director: Abhishek Pathak
Actors: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Akshaye Khanna
Rating: 2/5

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‘Drishyam 2’ movie review: Such remakes be copies, no?

Film: Drishyam 2Director: Abhishek PathakActors: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Akshaye KhannaRating: 2/5

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Film: Drishyam 2
Director: Abhishek Pathak
Actors: Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Akshaye Khanna
Rating: 2/5