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
Drishyam 2 movie review: A thrilling, befitting sequel
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Drishyam 2: Slow burn suspense drama
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Malayalam superstar Mohanlal says Drishyam 2 will take forward the legacy of the franchise, dispelling all theories and answering all questions. The trailer of the film was launched on Saturday.. Image Source: IANS Direction: Jeethu Joseph
BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
The beauty of Drishyam lay in the finality of its end. As Mohanlal s Georgekutty buried the truth (literally) and got away with the perfect cover-up, there was hardly scope to dig out anything new, you would think for scriptwriter or cops.
The challenge therefore lay in undoing an end that had been done so superbly eight years ago. With Drishyam 2, writer-director Jeethu Joseph pulls out a thread of continuity out of almost nowhere, and gives it a spin of imagination to carry the tale forward.
Rating: 4 stars
Drishyam, released in 2013, was remade in four Indian languages – Hindi, Kannada,
Telugu and Tamil, as well as in Sinhalese and Mandarin
. An intelligent and gripping thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat, it follows the trials and tribulations of a family
accused of
a teenage boy.
In the sequel, Mohanlal reprises his role as patriarch George Kutty, as do Meena who plays his wife, Rani, Ansiba who plays his oldest daughter Anju and Esther Anil who plays his youngest, Anu. The film is set six years after the events in
Drishyam (a must-watch before you dive into the sequel)
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