Drishyam 2 (दृश्यम २)

​"Drishyam 2 (दृश्यम २)".

Watched Hindi movie "Drishyam 2 (दृश्यम २)". 

This movie is directed by Abhishek Pathak. Written by Aamil Keeyan Khan and Abhishek Pathak. Story by Jeethu Joseph. Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar and others. Cinematography by Sudheer K. Chaudhary. Music by Devi Sri Prasad. It features Ajay Devgan, Tabu, Akshay Khanna, Shriya Saran, Saurabh Shukla, Yogesh Soman, Ishita Dutta, Mrunal Jadhav, Rajat Kapur, Kamlesh Sawant, Neha Joshi, Siddharth Bodke. Film runs for about 2 hour and 20 minutes and was released in 2022. I watched it on 28th Jan 2023 on Amazon Prime with Aditi.

The story starts 7 years after previous story ends. Ajay has sold some of his land to a quarreling couple, built a movie theater and is living good life. His elder  daughter has epilepsy, a result of the events from previous movie. Rajat Kapur comes back to request bones of his son that Ajay can’t provide. Ajay is arrested. There is an eye witness of Ajay hiding the body. Bones are found from under police station. 

Who saw Ajay? Will Ajay confess? Will Tabu have her revenge? Will there be another twist?

Ajay reprises his role as Vijay Salgaokar.  He looks 7 year older. Shriya continues as his wife. Tabu and Rajat continue in their roles. This is one of the rare sequels that has come after a big gap but retains all the actors. Only the director was a forced change because of demise of Nishikank Kamath. Akshay is the new entrant. Bald Akshay looks menacing. 

The movie is slow in first hour. Scratch that. It’s super slow. Audience start doubting decision to watch. But it picks up speed when the body (bones) is found. The movie appears to have a lot of unnecessary scenes. Spectators think these scenes slow the movie down. But when the revelation happens, one understands why those scenes were in the movie. 

It would have been better if the story had a little bit of pace initially. That would have made the experience exhilarating. But due to slow speed, it becomes only a good movie. 

This film recovered more than six times its production cost. It was a big success. 

Positives: The mystery. 

Negatives: Pace. 

Recommend watching.