Drishyam is the Malayalam movie that director Jeethu Joseph, lived his dream. The movie went to box with big hit and within two years the movie has done in three languages other than Malyalam. I am mentioning all this because this story has drawn more attention than any other movie in resent years. There is an element of controversy about the story, that it had been picked from a Korean novel called the 'The Devotion of Suspect'. What ever said about this, the adoption of the story to the screen play and the pace the movie has been narrated is absolutely edge of the seat experience.
Personally I took my family of two sons and my wife after a gap of 4years. Since my second son birth I had not taken them personally to movie. Even though this is not their first theater experience they showed mixed reaction to the movie. My younger son, could not stand the thrill in the screen and he termed in ghost movie. My elder son turned from the screen when the murder take place in the movie and later felt awkward when Kalabavan Mani ( the sub inspector character ) man handles the hero's family. My wife enjoyed the movie to the fullest as it has lot of life resemblance. I am not kidding the movie has a beautiful threaded family, realistic middle class life style and a go getting man, who does not hesitate to do any job.
Getting back to the review of the movie, my personal favorite movie star Kamalhasan is the hero of the story. Well to have a man who lived most of his life in film set to think cinematic is like fish to water. Dam this man deserves all the price for his acting in all angles of Papanasam. To a caring father, loving husband, responsible citizen and cleaver common man , Kamal just handled it to perfection. Based on my elder sons reaction I want to know from Kamal ji how he would have felt watching horror or thrilling movies those days when he started acting at 4 years of age. Especially AV Meiappa chittiar had a personal screen to watch movies and Kamal ji had special permission to watch movies with him. In litter vain, this question has never been posted in any of his interviews. The movie has all the ingredient to thrill and deals with contemprory subject of hidden camera and mobile phone misuses.
A special mention about Asha sharath, who did the IG of police character, did the job to perfection. MS Baskar , Kalabavan Mani and the girl acted as Hero's elder daughter are few other characters who made life in the screen. Gowthami, my dream girl (Yester Years) , who was a successful actor returned to the screen after long time , took the job at ease and perfection. After a long time Kamal movie had sucessful box office run and it also proves that the tamil film lovers have more become like malayalam viewers, where heroes are overshadowed by stories.
This movie is a classic movie with fresh approach to the subject thriller. I recently watched a movie called 'Anbulla rajinikanth' where actor Meena acted as child artist and I was thinking how effectively the film has adopted flimy scenes to give the realistic touch to the movie. Incidentally the heroin of the Malayalam movie is Meena. The last scene where Suambulingam ( the lead roles name) walks out of the police station after his signature protocol is a new attempt and gave a satisfactory feeling that you had watched a wholesome movie.
