User Reviews

Good story line but failed to execute it. Over acting from Ramesh, could have been done better. Many series are better than this

The movie has brilliant concept and execution quite decent. But the problems lies in the story. What was the blind girl doing in the pub alone. Why there were nobody in the club other than the two rapists? It was so silly to show one of the rapist in uniform to show that he was a cop. There was no reason why the 11 member team waited 4 long years to take the revenge. When Shivaji goes to the resort for the first time, he tells everything about the owner just by observing the surroundings. Shivaji says that he is an ex commercial pilot, but in the flashback he just looks like a casual theatre artist. Was he really a pilot? Or Does this mean Shivaji's over smartness overshadowed basic background verification a police officer has to perform? Or it was another flaw in the story? Ending is not convincing, as they show that home minister gets convinced to the lame report submitted by the investing officer. Cinematography and editing is excellent, Direction is also good. They should have worked on the story a bit more.

A copy of the legendary film but acting was good and rape nicely woven in the script.

As the makers acknowledge, this movie is inspired from the novels of Agatha Christie and sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Although the movie looks little tacky in the beginning with some over the top acting an imitation of Sherlock Holmes, it slowly builds up and gets really interesting in the second half. So definitely an enjoyable movie

Spoiler Alert This movie is influenced by the Oriental Express by Agatha Christie to a large extent. The concept is pretty similar

There were 2 stories years apart which had a conjunction running through it.

To begin- I would have expected director and senior actor Ramesh to watch the movie before releasing. The beginning tempo just fails in the end.

Bad cuts, it wasnt linear or non linear ... the transition was too bad between story scenes.. The characters lacked the emotion in them. Just using props , lightings and sounds you cant bring in the feel this story actually needed.

A strong protagonist with successful cases behind him, with the intro confidence or should i say overconfidence shown in the initial part of the film just withers away without justification. Characters go missing and th eunrelaistc shot s make it a bit dumb.

Ex scene: When the minisiter son comes to get a room, he is walked thourgh an estate to his room with all fog, forest feel etc, but while investigation happens his room is shown as if inside a building with corridors. This is plain miss or lack of imagination of location.

Honestly I expected a bit more from Ramesh to add in the narrative. I wish he had seen the full movie before release to.

I am not sure if it was budget or timing, lot of loose ends and medicre acting and rush to finish the product just lost a real good franchise in kannada industry.

If at all a second attempt, then apart from story , please give all consideration to location, screenplay, cuts or editing and tone of the movie.

Story: 9 out of 10 Plot: 8 out of 10 Acting: 4 out of 10 editing: 1 out of 10 direction: 4 out of 10 Tone of movie: 3 out of 10.

Good luck.

At one point in this murder mystery which came out in 2020, Ramesh Aravind moves his gaze across some people seated before him and shouts, "How could you - a group of middle class people who shudder at the prospect of a police visit during passport verification - become killers? What's your motive??"

The case assigned to him is just one half of the puzzle that inspector Shivaji Surathkal (Ramesh) is trying to unravel in this story, and frankly he takes it up only because it's shoved upon him by a political bigwig. He has spent his last few years as if in a daze, ever since calamity struck his budding family and killed his wife and unborn child. Until then they were an idyllic upwardly mobile couple, living in Mysore and cut from the cleanest cloth: he from that old city itself and regarded as "Sherlock Holmes" by fellow policemen, his wife from Kodagu a brave lawyer.

Now dour faced and despondent, the middle class heart throb gets no space to act out our aspirations or entertain with comic timing. Instead you see him flit between a dramatic day in the past - variously referred to as four or five years ago - and a sullen present. The day he came home from work to find his pregnant wife missing, and then learned she has been murdered. Some detective work reveals the involvement of powerful people, but the trail runs cold right after and he's stonewalled.

Therefore, not only does our "hero" lack closure, he needs regular meds just to keep a straight narrative, or else will slip into hallucinations where the reality around him becomes a jumbled mess.

The present mysterious death (the son of the state's Home Minister) has our Holmes cooped up in a resort with its dozen guests, and you look forward to how he will fare in this Agatha Christie-like setting! They're pretty much the kind of people you'd expect to see in a resort: an Instagram photoblogger, an NRI couple from California, a documentary film maker ... etc. A stern faced palm reader comes across as the only threatening voice of the lot. A key figure who goes missing is the driver Anwar who guided the politico's son there.

Once the plot and this cast of characters is established, the story moves more slowly than you'd like. Even Ramesh isn't sure whether he's making progress or running in circles! He runs out of medication and the hallucinations return, along with flashbacks of happier times with his wife and the frantic investigation following her death. Will our hero give up again and leave us hanging too this time?

In its own way this movie probes the question of how ordinary people may respond when their political leaders - who're expected to act honourably and uphold justice - behave as if the rules don't apply to them. What if one brazen act by a big shot irreparably damages the lives of many people, linking their fates together (like in this movie)? And will a deaf patriarchy not pay heed until women start taking matters into their own hands?

The film also leaves some loose ends that you may have to tie up yourself. For starters, what kind of a name is Shivaji Surathkal for this Mysore-Kodagu pairing?? All of Ramesh's flashbacks prominently feature some Mysore landmark or the other (the palace, statue square etc). They even have a big photo of the palace holding up their keystand. Or, why is that dreadful event always referred to vaguely as 4-5 years ago (in this murder mystery which came out in 2020, as I wrote in the beginning). While in fact the exact time the protagonist starts to worry is told to us - shown on a clock face and underlined by loud ticks in the background.

On the whole, despite its uneven pace and some cliched police work, I found it a watchable movie with enough plot and character to keep me hooked.