Drishyam (2013)

• Year: 2013
• Released: 19 Dec 2013
• Country: India
• Adwords: 17 wins & 6 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3417422/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drishyam
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Malayalam
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Runtime: 160 min
• Writer: Jeethu Joseph
• Director: Jeethu Joseph
• Cast: Mohanlal, Meena, Asha Sharath
• Keywords: murder, police, family, death, hidden camera,

	8.3/10
	80% – Critics
	91% – Audience

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Fight for your family…

“Drishyam” is a Crime – Drama movie in which we watch a man doing everything he can to fix a mistake that it was made by his family.

I liked this movie very much because I had already watch the movie “Drishyam” of 2015 and then I found out that there was also another one. After I watched this movie I have to admit that I liked the movie of 2015 a little bit more because of the characters – cast and also because of their interpretations. Regarding the interpretations of this movie I have to say that Mohanlal who played as George Kutty and Meena who played as Rani were very good. The direction which was made by Jeethu Joseph was very good.

original version

The movie opens with George Kutty at the police station under suspicion and then goes back to the beginning. George runs a small cable TV operation in a rural area where he watches the movies and shows that he pumps out all day. That’s how he becomes knowledgeable in many things despite a limited education. He’s an orphan, a self-made man, and respected in the community. He has a family with two daughters. The older daughter Anju gets blackmailed and she kills the boy while trying to recover the cell phone. The father works to cover up the crime with knowledge he learned from the TV.

I saw the 2015 version first. The plot is generally the same. I don’t know much about Bollywood. I’m assuming that the remake was done to appeal to the bigger audience with another language. It seems to be a bit more glossier also. I have similar praise and have similar problems. The blackmail incident happens almost an hour into this almost three hours movie. It’s the inciting incident. A western movie could never withstand an introduction that is an hour long. The tone is totally different. When it happens, it becomes almost Hitchcockian. It’s great after that.

“Ma’am, this family is even tougher than we thought!”

As far as rating this film goes, it might depend on which of the two versions of “Drishyam” one might have seen first. I caught the 2015 film a while ago with Ajay Devgn in the lead role and I thought his performance was excellent and the movie itself superb. Both movies tell basically the exact same story with minor variations, and if you see them well apart like I did, those differences might not be readily apparent. This one was just as good, though I’d have to say my preference was for the later film, without knowing anything at all about the differences between Malayalam (this one) versus Hindi (the 2015 one). At the time I reviewed the 2015 film a couple years ago, I found it perplexing that it ranked in IMDb’s Top #250 for 2016, but sat at #21 on the best films of India, while the original “Drishyam” was at #2. Today, as I write this, only the 2013 movie made IMDb’s Top 250 for all of last year, while currently, the 2013 film is at #27 for the Top Indian movies list, and the 2015 picture is at #38. So in most viewers’ minds, the earlier movie version is preferred, though I’ll stick with my original pick.