This was a very engaging and entertaining movie, peppered with great acting performances.
But the concept is borrowed from a French short film, which I watched and it serves as an interesting benchmark for the strength of Andhadhun's storyline. And I would say while Raghavan has done a great job of converting the premise into a full length film, lots of holes remain. It's bizarre of Tabu to open the door to him in the first place, (in the original short film the pianist says "I'm blind" so she opens the door, where as here she asks him way later). Apte's character is used quite wastefully and she's missing through most of the movie. After Tabu makes up the fanciful story of Ayushmann being her lover, I would have thought the natural conclusion would be that the police go after him as he's now the suspect. Instead there's no sign of the police.
The whole plot is fanciful and not very well thought out.
So overall this movie fell quite short of perfection.
But the concept is borrowed from a French short film, which I watched and it serves as an interesting benchmark for the strength of Andhadhun's storyline. And I would say while Raghavan has done a great job of converting the premise into a full length film, lots of holes remain. It's bizarre of Tabu to open the door to him in the first place, (in the original short film the pianist says "I'm blind" so she opens the door, where as here she asks him way later). Apte's character is used quite wastefully and she's missing through most of the movie. After Tabu makes up the fanciful story of Ayushmann being her lover, I would have thought the natural conclusion would be that the police go after him as he's now the suspect. Instead there's no sign of the police.
The whole plot is fanciful and not very well thought out.
So overall this movie fell quite short of perfection.