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This entire movie is just bad. From the acting to the script to the dialogue, whichever way you look at it from, i don't understand how anyone could enjoy this garbage. What a waste of talented veteran actresses like khushboo and sheela.

One thing the malayalam movie industry excels in that the other industries in the country don't is giving a certain essence and life to our movies, and that's exactly where this movie falls short. Andhadhun is a very popular movie that released nearly 2-3 years ago and much of the malayali audience have already seen it. The sets, the story and the dialogues in this movie were so similar to the original hindi movie that it felt like I was watching the same movie but with malayalam actors and Malayalam dialogues. Sticking with the story line but atleast changing up the dialogues and certain scenes would have done the trick of giving this movie some uniqueness.

Another place where the movie fails is in the casting, while prithvi tried to bring justice to his role the best he could, it still felt like i was just watching him mimic Ayushman khuranna, same goes with all the other male characters including the police officer, the dead actor, the crooked surgeon etc, it seemed like they were just acting out the parts their hindi counterparts played, there was zero depth to the characters and the realness from the original was not there. It also felt like the female characters were in it solely as eye candies instead of the powerful roles they had in the original. Simi in the original was a scary psychopath, she knew how to manipulate people and was an apathic killer who would do anything to save herself. In this movie, it looked like mamta simply tried to act out the character tabu played, that scariness of Simi's character from the hindi version was not there. Perhaps giving the role to a more experienced and older actress like manju varier, Shwetha Menon etc would have brought more justice to the character. Same goes to the character of Anna, the actress clearly doesn't speak malayalam, and her acting and delivery of dialogues doesn't hide the fact. There was so much emotion and heartbreak and anger radhika Apte put into her character in the hindi version that was simply not there in this movie. Malayali Actresses like Rima kallingal, Parvathy, Anne Augustine or even Mamta Mohandas would have been better off playing anna.

Ananya was good playing the role of the police officer's wife, but again that power the original actress Ashwini kalsekar gave to the role was missing. She felt like just a naive, traditional malayali wife in this movie. In the original, though manohar's wife had short screen time, she was a memorable character. It was clear that manohar feared his wife, she was a woman who loved her husband but would take no crap from him. That depth of character too was missing in this movie, here it felt like ananya's character was there just for the name sake.

All in all the movie seemed like an exact carbon copy of the original and if given a choice I'm pretty sure everyone would opt to watch the original over this one.

I thoroughly enjoyed the show. Yes sometimes the decisions made by the protagonists are uncomfortable but that's the whole point of it. This series questions a lot of societal stigma and I'm here for it. We need more shows like this.