HIT: The First Case
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Sanya Malhotra
Director: Dr Sailesh Kolanu
Rating: 3

Here’s a question I have for you as an audience, especially of murder-mysteries/suspense-thrillers: Does your enjoyment/engagement with a story depend entirely on the denouement, or the payback, when all the loose/unexplained strings of a plot get resolved, or come together, eventually? Or are you reasonably satisfied still, so long as you’ve remained glued to the screen, right up till the end in the first place; what more do you want?

I use mystery and suspense here interchangeably. Mystery, of course, refers to a puzzle that needs to be solved. The suspense gets created from the audience wondering what will happen next. HIT: The First Case, remake of director Sailesh Kolanu’s Telugu film of the same name, is decidedly more a mystery.