Writer-director Jeethu Joseph strikes gold with Drishyam 2, his sequel to the 2013 thriller film. Jeethu adeptly guides the viewers through its ingenious narrative before leaving the movie and us in existential dread. Replace Drishyam s sappy morality with the film s serious existentialism, and there you have it - The perfect sequel. Feb 19, 2021 By Sreejith Mullappilly
Amazon Prime s latest release Drishyam 2 builds on the legend of its protagonist Georgekutty, a calculative, empathetic, and mysterious man looking to protect his family from the law. For an uninitiated, the first Drishyam is about this Mohanlal character covering up a murder that his family inadvertently committed. The events in this sequel to that masterful film take place 6 years after the fateful incident at the heart of its plot. The film follows the lives of Georgekutty, his wife Rani, and his kids Anu and Anju as they try to evade cops who still look into the case despite 6
I have been an unabashed
Mohanlal and
Malayalam films fan for over three decades now. Being a journalist, I may try hard not to let this cloud my judgement, but do forgive me if some inherent biases creep in.
For, this,
Drishyam 2 – The Resumption is not a film review in the strict sense of the term, but of the craft and the almost-perfect sequel Mohan Lal and director Jeethu Joseph have pulled off.
At the end of
Drishyam, we thought
Georgekutty had pulled off the perfect cover-up of a murder. Then why, you wonder, was there a need for a sequel?
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Mohanlal in Drishyam 2 (2021) | Aashirvad Cinemas/Amazon Prime Video
Revenge is a dish best served re-heated, the sequel to the megahit Malayalam movie
Drishyam suggests.
After orchestrating the perfect crime at the end of the first film, affable cable television operator and fierce family man Georgekutty faces the music in
Drishyam 2. A previously undiscovered eyewitness and new evidence threaten Georgekutty’s
sangfroid and raise the temperature at his household.
Unable to let sleeping dogs lie – or rather, corpses to stay buried – writer-director Jeethu Joseph boldly sets out with his scripting shovel to exhume the elements that propelled the first film to blockbuster status in 2013.
A still from ‘Drishyam 2’
Jeethu Joseph and Mohanlal team up again to revisit Georgekutty’s life in a sequel that has its share of memorable twists and turns
Having a reputation to maintain and expectations to meet can either be a burden or an inspiration. The sequel to
Drishyam has one of the best thrillers in Malayalam cinema to live up to, and in its protagonist Georgekutty, a man whose brain is always one step ahead of the police’s.
Drishyam 2 takes off six years from the time when Georgekutty (Mohanlal), a cable television operator, outsmarted the police investigating the murder of Varun Prabhakar, his daughter’s classmate who gets accidentally killed by her, during an attempt to sexually assault her.