‘Blink’ movie review: Srinidhi Bengaluru makes a solid debut with a gripping time-travel drama
March 09, 2024 06:12 pm | Up to date March 10, 2024 11:50 am IST
Helped by good performances from Dheekshith Shetty, Gopalkrishna Deshpande and Chaithra J Achar, and sufficient twists, ‘Blink’ is a strong drama that holds our consideration all through its runtime
Dheekshith Shetty in ‘Blink’.
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Blink begins with the audio of eminent Kannada author P Lankesh speaking concerning the magnificence and challenges of writing in an interview with All India Radio. Lankesh is an inspiration to hundreds of writers from Karnataka. In a very long time, no Kannada movie has begun with a tribute to writing, one of many essential components of a top quality movie.
Writing is certainly the most important energy of Blink, however extra on that later. Aside from the performers, the movie is led by a rookie workforce, with debutant Srinidhi Bengaluru being the director. Many movies with out strong monetary backing and inexperienced artistes look cheesy on the technical entrance; Blink is something however that. The movie strikes seamlessly due to the right fusion of modifying, cinematography, and music.
Operating throughout a number of timelines, Blink has Dheekshith Shetty enjoying Apoorva, a teen but to seek out his footing in his profession. He will depend on his girlfriend Swapna (Mandara Battalahalli) for cash. They’re a part of a theatre group gearing up for a manufacturing.
Blink (Kannada)
Director: Srinidhi Bengaluru
Forged: Dheekshith Shetty, Chaithra J Achar, Gopalkrishna Deshpande and Suresh Anagalli
Runtime: 136 minutes
Storyline: Apoorva, a teen struggling to seek out his footing in profession, has a singular capability to manage blinking, and that turns into a curse when a mysterious outdated man reveals surprising particulars of his previous.
Speaking about theatre, Oedipus Rex turns into the rationale for the movie’s greatest twist! However the movie throws its first shock when Apoorva sees an outdated man following him. Quickly, he comes throughout an individual who appears to be like precisely like him. Apoorva has a singular capability to manage his blinking, and that turns into a significant device for him to study his previous.
As soon as the time-travel idea kicks in, Blink turns into a gripping thriller as director Srinidhi Bengaluru lays out the normal framework of the style with out hiccups. Folks maintain going backwards and forwards in time. With every time-travel, the movie affords juicy twists. The movie explains its flip of occasions with out going to the extent of spoon-feeding.
The movie’s writing is a lesson on the impression of subtlety in cinema. Blink pays a delicate but genuine tribute to Kannada writers, motion pictures, and tradition via songs, photographs, and informal mentions. The dialogues sound actual whereas no scene is longer than required, but once more emphasising the great thing about meticulous writing.
Dheekshith Shetty brilliantly sells the frustration of a person dealing with an unsure future. Gopalakrishna Deshpande, Chaithra J Achar, Suresh Anagalli, and Vajdradheer Jain are pitch-perfect of their respective roles. The complexity within the screenplay is inevitable, given the movie’s idea. For folks merely on the lookout for simple leisure, it could possibly be laborious to course of new particulars at main turning factors within the film.
Because the movie neared its finish, maybe exhausted by the variety of revelations, somebody requested within the film corridor, “Are we additionally within the loop?”. Blink is a genre-specific film that wants robust consideration and undisturbed funding to take pleasure in its outcomes. And as we consider the movie later, many issues do make sense.
Blink is at the moment operating in theatres.
