Drishyam 2 #Hindi #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #Drishyam2 (#HindiRemake) #Tseries Cast: #AjayDevgn #ShriyaSaran #Tabu #AkshayeKhanna #RajatKapoor #IshitaDutta #KamleshSawant Director: #AbhishekPathak Rating: * * * Runtime: 145 minutes #UniversalCommunications

Like in #JeethuJoseph’s original #Malayalam sequel, this official Hindi remake also takes the story forward seven years later. Vijay Salgaocar and family have managed to stay out of the Police radar following the disappearance of top-cop Meera Deshpande’s son. Her friend/batchmate ( Akshay Khanna) is now the new cop in town and has reopened the investigation- putting the Salgoacar family back in the police crosshairs. Debutant director Abhishek Pathak tries to make this experience slightly different from the original by shuffling some scenes around and unnecessarily extending some – but the result is not as engaging and gripping as the original. It’s serviceable though. Dialogues have some paisa vasool moments, narrative has sufficient tension garnered from the manner in which the story plays out and performances are suitably gritty. Though the nuts and bolts of this thriller don’t quite fit in well enough, the central idea that the man of the house will go to any lengths to protect his family, makes this a winning one. Right or wrong, burden of guilt, living life under the canopy of fear, forgiveness in the face of unbearable loss – the audience is made an intimate party to the dilemma that the Salgoacar and Deshpande families grapple with. The escape route designed to keep Vijay out of jail is not a solid one but the audience (already invested in his travails and rooting for him) will be pleased enough that there’s a loophole to aid him.