A thriller that saves its twists till the end
Overview: When the lifetime of an investigator will get intertwined together with his case, it’s overwhelming to see his emotional involvement in its proceedings. Debutant Bibin Krishna’s movie 21 Grams, starring Anoop Menon within the lead, presents a narrative of this style – which is explored very often in M-City – now.
Crime department DySP Nanda Kishore is emotionally recovering from a dying in his household, and is sort of reluctant when he’s requested to take up the homicide case of two siblings. When he lastly begins engaged on it, at sure factors, he sees the investigation getting intertwined together with his personal life and thus, sophisticated. The movie is about how he untangles its puzzles, and his personal emotional funding in the identical.
There are ample suspects, motives, leads and twists within the story all through, to ‘assist’ the viewers doubt most characters that seem on display screen, whereas attempting to unravel all of it in their very own heads, parallelly. It’s a type of movies that additionally provides you the sensation, on and off, that there’s rather a lot simmering beneath the stoic floor, as you carefully study the faces showing on display screen. The underlying gloom within the narration, even when not intentionally spelt out, additionally provides a sure heaviness to the story. All of the actors have lent the suitable emotional essence into the story, too.
Then once more, there’s a probability that the viewers get impatient with the movie’s usually erratic tempo. In all probability it’s saved thus to maintain the viewers on their toes, however it’s uncertain whether or not such a therapy has delivered the thrills supposed, particularly within the second half. The final twist is attention-grabbing, although the scenes resulting in it for a couple of minutes don’t construct up the correct quantity of pleasure. Those that love slow-paced police thrillers may give the movie a strive.
