Drishyam (2015)

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Movie
German title Drishyam
Original title दृश्यम
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 2015
Rod
Director Nishikant Kamat
script Upendra Sidhaye
production Abhishek Pathak ,
Kumar Mangat Pathak
music Sameer Phaterpekar
camera Avinash Arun
cut Aarif Sheikh
occupation

Drishyam ( Hindi दृश्यम Dṛśyam ) is an Indian thriller film by Nishikant Kamat from 2015. It is a remake of the 2013 film of the same name by Jeethu Joseph .

action

Vijay Salgaonkar is a father of a family of four and runs a small cable TV channel that mainly broadcasts movies. Most of the work is done by the intern José. Vijay, on the other hand, sits in his small office all day and watches films there non-stop. There wouldn't be a movie he didn't know. Vijay's educational deficit, caused by his early dropout, is more than compensated for by the knowledge he acquired through films. In his rural surroundings he is known as a good person who can help in all situations and knows advice.

One day his older daughter Anju gets the opportunity to take part in a free time for her school. During this free time she gets to know Sam, who enjoys filming other participating girls with his new smartphone without being asked and to their annoyance. A few weeks after his free time, Sam visits Anju and shows her a video on his cell phone in which he secretly filmed Anju while showering. He implies seeking sexual compensation from her for deleting this video. Otherwise he will put the video online. In order to receive the consideration, he announces that he will visit her at home in the evening. Anju knows: If the video were to be made public or if anyone outside of her family would find out about it, it would be for her honor, even that of her family. So she refrains from calling the police. Instead, she asks Sam, who comes in the evening. Inside, Nandini, Anju's mother, surprises him. He also shows the video to him and is now ready to accept sexual consideration from her. Anju grabs a metal rod unseen by Sam and wants to break his smartphone and destroy the video. In fact, however, she hits Sam in the head and kills him with her blow. The two women hastily bury Sam's body in the garden. The little sister and daughter Anu noticed the matter. When Vijay later comes home from his work, they dedicate this too.

Vijay is now trying to remove all traces and give the family an alibi. To do this, he makes Sam's car disappear, buys a used cell phone into which he inserts Sam's SIM card, and lets it ride on a semi-trailer to lure those looking for something wrong. Then he works out a plan for what he did with his family on the two days in question: A two-day trip to Panjim. He actually goes on this trip with his family on the following two days in order to get as many witnesses as possible for the trip and to put the family in a position in which they can credibly tell about this trip. A few weeks later, he visits the witnesses of this trip and skilfully engages them in a conversation in which he speaks to them about this trip and makes them believe that it took place two days earlier.

It turns out that Sam was the son of Police Director Meera. She heads the investigation herself and quickly realizes that Vijay has something to do with Sam's disappearance because a corrupt village policeman, who doesn't like Vijay anyway, saw him driving Sam's car away. The film tells the measures Vijay took to cover up the murder, but non-linearly. Whenever the viewer and the police think that they have now found a way to convict Vijay, the film shows what Vijay did weeks before in order not to be convicted in this way.

Ultimately, however, the police are believed to be able to expose all of Vijay's tricks, but they lack the evidence, especially the body. The police lead the whole family away and have their parents and Anju brutally beaten there in the presence of their little daughter Anu in order to get the family to confess. When that doesn't help either, the three are led away and little Anu is left alone. She is threatened by the police that if Anu does not testify, her parents and sister will be killed. Then Anu began to be beaten. That's too much for the little one, she admits.

In the presence of the press and the whole village, the body is now being dug in the family's garden. But when you only find one decayed animal there, believe the crowd, who always stuck to Vijay's innocence anyway, the policeman who claims to have seen Vijay driving away the cars, wanted to blame Vijay for all this and was the culprit. Enraged by this thought, the crowd can no longer be held and attacks the policeman. Vijay later explains to his family, who were themselves very wounded when the animal carcass was found, that he had reburied the body in a safer place, but for their own protection does not want to say where to go. At the end of the film, however, the viewer learns that Vijay had worked the body into the foundations of the village's new police headquarters. The film ends at a point in time when the police headquarters has already been completed. Finding the corpse is now extremely unlikely. Due to a lack of evidence, the family continues to live in freedom while the police director Meera gives up her job and leaves the country with her husband.

criticism

Rohit Vats of the Hindustan Times gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5. He described the film as "amazing, poignant, shocking and captivating" and praised it for its success as a thriller.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rohit Vats: High Voltage Thriller .