Dhruvungal Pathinaaru is a commendable attempt at a thriller. But the director has failed to understand a critical rule of film making when it comes to thrillers, is how to misdirect the audience. Misdirection should never be forced on the audience rather it should play within the movie.
Addition of an entire scene at the start of the movie in the end to reveal that it was only a figment of one of the characters imagination is literally trying to fool the audience, not misdirect and one of my major concerns with the movie.
The other major concern is the use of the word psycho killer as throwing this word around through out the movie creates an expectation toward the spectacular and when the proceedings fall flat instead, effects the entire perception of the movie.
Finally, the psycho killer theory is something that is shared only between Deepak and Gautham and this is never made public as the media reports it to be a case of a stalker, killing his victim. Meaning the point at the start of the movie where the visitor asks him about the psycho killer case, it is evident that this is indeed Gautham and the movie could have ended at that point and not dragged on for another hour to the big reveal.
Rahman's is the only performance that seems to have mattered to the director so that ends up as the only watchable performance in the movie as the rest are just added to fill the space around Rahman and help the director's attempt to thrill us.
In the end D16 is a good attempt at trying to make a thriller but a normal story, forced twists, slow pace make it a hit and miss attempt at a thriller. The high rating is misleading and i believe it is owing to the underdog status given to the movie.
Addition of an entire scene at the start of the movie in the end to reveal that it was only a figment of one of the characters imagination is literally trying to fool the audience, not misdirect and one of my major concerns with the movie.
The other major concern is the use of the word psycho killer as throwing this word around through out the movie creates an expectation toward the spectacular and when the proceedings fall flat instead, effects the entire perception of the movie.
Finally, the psycho killer theory is something that is shared only between Deepak and Gautham and this is never made public as the media reports it to be a case of a stalker, killing his victim. Meaning the point at the start of the movie where the visitor asks him about the psycho killer case, it is evident that this is indeed Gautham and the movie could have ended at that point and not dragged on for another hour to the big reveal.
Rahman's is the only performance that seems to have mattered to the director so that ends up as the only watchable performance in the movie as the rest are just added to fill the space around Rahman and help the director's attempt to thrill us.
In the end D16 is a good attempt at trying to make a thriller but a normal story, forced twists, slow pace make it a hit and miss attempt at a thriller. The high rating is misleading and i believe it is owing to the underdog status given to the movie.