‘Drishyam 3’ review: Give it a rest, Georgekutty
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Drishyam caused a sensation when it came out in 2013. Jeethu Joseph’s Malayalam film was about the perfect cover-up of a righteous crime. The blockbuster, which borrowed its basic premise from Keigo Higashino’s brilliant novel The Devotion of Suspect X, spawned remakes in several languages.
Drishyam stars Mohanlal, in one of his most acclaimed roles, as the rubber farmer Georgekutty. When Georgekutty’s older daughter Anju (Ansiba Hassan) and wife Rani (Meena) kill Anju’s tormentor Varun, the son of the Inspector General of Police Geetha (Asha Sarath), Georgekutty waddles to their defence.
Georgekutty comes up with an unbreakable alibi. It’s so clever that it holds up even in Drishyam 2. Geetha and her husband Prabhakar (Siddique) are unable to locate their son’s body.
Drishyam 3, which is out in cinemas this week, puts Georgekutty in a spot yet again.
In a movie that could also be titled The Neverending Day of the Remains, Geetha and Prabhakar are still mourning their son. Georgekutty, a supposed exemplar of discretion, is rash enough to produce a movie adaptation of his experiences – not quite what you would expect from somebody who wants the world to forget what he has gone through.
Georgekutty has always been quietly cocky. This time, he’s sloppy too. Anxious about finding the right match for Anju, which is a...