Weekend, everyone in Kerala had gone gaga over Drishyam 2, all the groups, and social media was busy chatting about this one movie, and many who have never watched movies in OTT opened their innings, and there were tons of new subscribers for Amazon Prime.
“Drishyam 2, like any other Malayalam film that released first on an OTT platform, will not be allowed to have a theatrical release. The films that register with the film chamber sign an affidavit that they will release their films on OTT only at least 42 days after a theatrical release. All films that fail to do so will not be allowed a theatrical release. Just because Drishyam 2 is a superstar film, the rules cannot be bent,” Vijayakumar, President of the Kerala Film Chamber, told TNM.
Though had not been very keen, I too ended up watching. It was played in our house on Friday night, on saturday when I had been to my sisters place, it was being played there as well. On why not keen, I was never a big fan of Mohanlal, and I am against people taking law in their hands.
The Story, Spoilers ahead, don't read in case you don't wish to know, this is what I got Thursday night, three hours after the release of movie, Thanks to Anil from team:
The first part reveling the life of Georgekutti, during the past six years, setting up theater with wife's name, elder daughter being scared of police and getting fix occasionally, natives speaking rumors of the incident though a bit slow is setting background for the fast paced and inquisitive second part.
Georgekutti planned for this in advance so it's not possible to say it in one liner. In fact before the movie released, we used to say police would know where he had hid the body of Varun as all of them would have seen the first part by now.
There was an eye witness who saw Georgekutti inside the police station that night he got arrested on a Murder crime and was in Jail for 6 years, when he got relised, he came to know about the prize money on any information on Varuns case and becomes a witness to Police for Money.
Thereafter they find the body. Also for two years Georgekutti's neighbours were secret police. His wife says a line on the crime that he was responsible and not their daughter but stopped there, Police takes it as a substantiate evidence and arrest whole family. On custody Georgekutti admits that he did the crime mistaking Varun as a thief he found in his backyard and first buried at the backyard in a sack later moved the body to the Police Station. Police first acts like he believes him and would present him to the court and later they would charge Mother and daughter as co-accused.
But Georgekutti had planned for this already. He says in the court that the admission to Police was made under duress and he is innocent. Geeta Prabhakar/Asha Sarath hitting Georgekutty in range when he says adamantly that they had been to Thodupuzha on the day Varun died was a striker.
To substantiate that before getting arrested he changes the remains of the body from Medical College prior to DNA Test, Using the friendship with the watchman there which he built over years for this sole purpose. He had collected and stored similar skeleton from a gravedigger with whom he developed friendship over the years solely for this purpose.
To substantiate the evidences he even had a movie planned on this story line and had a well known script writer to write the script and published it. Scriptwriter Saikumar later tells this to Police but by that time all the bones were evaporated by acid. Also a book was published thus planning two ends to the movie.
As a tail end he give bones to a priest to do final rites per Hindu Custom.
We thought he was playing snake and ladder, but he ended up playing chess. His life was his punishment.
Many had mentioned this to be the goosebump scene. Well it is significant. A friend Murali Gopi trying to help a colleague and friend, two suffering families, an escape from law. There is an interesting dialogue, if all people thought like Prabhakar/Siddique, the world would have been a better place.
If in place of Mohanlal all that was done by someone else, would the actions be justified?
A capable man would do anything to protect his daughter especially when there was no mistake at all with her. It's all justified. If someone plays as smart as Georgekutti to evade the IPC and CRPC, law cannot do anything but allow it. As they say in the movie, there are so many unresolved cases in India.
When you dont feel guilty and the law makes you guilty you play smart and evade the law, take law in your hand. We are human!
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