Garudan Movie Review: Suresh Gopi, Biju Menon's Film Is A Taut Twisty Thriller – Times Now

About Garudan

Garudan is a compelling beast of a movie. It grips you by the neck and hurls you from one twist to a different till you’re pleasantly exhausted on the finish whereas reaching a fruits that’s each anticipated and surprising.

This can be a authorized thriller. The main focus is just not on the legal professionals however the accused and a cop who lock horns in a battle the place the strains of morality are fatally blurred. It begins with a easy family-oriented academician Nishanth (Biju Menon) being accused of raping and murdering a younger faculty woman.

A seasoned cop Harish Madhav (Suresh Gopi) who’s about to retire and deplete all his pension cash to ship his son for schooling overseas (this can be a important element) is introduced in to crack the case. Nishant is quickly booked and despatched to jail for all times. However, right here comes the corkscrew twist, is he actually responsible? When Harish is freed, he fights his personal case to show his innocence.

The luxurious play of morality/immorality, guilt/nonguilt strikes forwards and backwards surreptitiously, not keen to let both facet slide off the ambit of the advantage of the doubt. Full marks to author Midhun Manuel Thomas for a completely researched courtroom drama that spends extra time exterior the courtroom than inside as authorized loopholes are tactfully introduced into play to push the plot ahead.

The narrative is constructed to spotlight the joys quotient, however not at the price of logic. The screenplay shows a deep humanism for its characters; whether or not it’s the rape-accused protagonist/antagonist or the rape sufferer’s father (Thalaivasal Vijay), every of the characters, massive or small, has a serious hand to play within the unravelling of a drama that’s each topical and tragic.

Astutely written and successfully acted, Garudan is a thriller with the longest legs. It leaps and gambols by way of a maze of incidents, every including as much as an exhilarating immersive expertise for the viewers.

Among the many actors, the ever-reliable Biju Menon scores excessive marks in a job that wants the actor to stay fully non-judgemental about his character’s guilt/nonguilt. In ‘Celebrity’ Suresh Gopi’s umpteenth cop act, his physique is problematic within the motion sequences. However the self-confidence of a lawmaker (“as soon as a cop all the time a cop”) who is aware of he’s by no means on the mistaken facet of the regulation, turns out to be useful in giving the battle of wits between the accused and his nemesis an ethical centre that the writing so firmly aspires to keep away from.

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