2019, Tamil, Netflix, 7.1/10 IMDB, Directed by Ashwin Saravanan
A thriller that doesn’t run chills through your spine, yet catches you off guard with the movie making and leaving the content to the audience’s interpretation- a new (safe) trend to escape blame games, I guess.
Tapsee Pannu, a welcome change to the female lead roler movies, subtly replacing Nayanthara’s off late solo venture, just when it started to tier you a little.. Tapsee has travelled miles in emoting minor tremors to mega fighter sequences.
Gamer centric movie inside the world of gaming- we did have a couple of versions in KV Anand’s Anegan and Manirathnam’s Ok Kanmani. This flick stands apart as it’s an outright thriller genre, with a little reincarnation and revenge guesses sprinkled on.
First half doesn’t have anything more than what the trailer offered you, but the game is on in the second half. It does do justice to an extend.
Psychopath murders, kindling delusions in an already recouping Psychiatric patient, is the one liner. But the Motiveless sadistic murders, if its the delusions in the heroine’s mind or is it a gaming expertise leading her to tackle the situation fearlessly or is it the spirit of the previous victim, a cancer fighter, helping her indirectly.. You are left to decide for yourself with ample clues to substantiate every other possibility.
She is motivated to give a fight as there is only one life, ironic to the many lives (mostly three) for the players in the gaming world. The third eye works overtime for these game addicts and you can interpret that she might have been actually saved by those kinda instict.
Vinodhini, scores equally as tapsee, as she travels parallelly throughout. Such big house having a lousy generator, instead of a simple UPS worries you throughout, but the diesel has better job in the climax. Now, let me see, was that in her 2nd life of the game (dream) or did it really happen.. Now I am left confused.
That’s the very problem of the story, in contrast to that of the concrete thriller like ‘Raatsasan’, which made you root for the characters to evade the psycho killer. Here you are left to root for your own self to lay out the plot eventually.