1/22/2024 0 Comments Deja vu movie synopsisDespite lacking believability and logic, especially the climax, the twists might sell well with the general audiences. The story holds a certain level of suspense and the way each knot is untied in the screenplay is a job well done. Over a point, it feels like you obviously know a twist is coming up. Too much information is fed in the last 20 minutes and as a result, the final act looked quite hurried. The second half is where the lag is felt and the film falls flat after a point. The film has inconsistent pacing with a mix of flat scenes followed by some well-written and executed scenes. However, the fizz is not maintained throughout. This idea definitely has your interest and the first half keeps you glued. A crime novelist writer comes to a Police station to file a complaint that his fictional characters exist in real life and they commit the crimes exactly how it has been written in the book. The film starts off on an impressive note and it piques our curiosity. How did the writer manage to predict every single development of the kidnap and did Vikram Kumar solve the case forms the rest of the plot.ĭebut director Arvindh Srinivasan has got a promising premise in hand and it is definitely a story that has got the potential to be converted into celluloid. An undercover cop named Vikram Kumar (Arulnithi) is assigned the case to resolve the mystery and find Pooja. Whatever the novelist writes, it happens in real life, making the case look more puzzled and mysterious. So, how has the film fared? Read on to know!ĭGP Asha Pramod's (Madhubala) daughter Pooja (Smruthi Venkat) gets kidnapped by unidentified men and the following incidents after the kidnap happens exactly as predicted by a crime novelist (Achyuth Kumar). Achyuth Kumar, Madhubala, Mime Gopi, Kaali Venkat, and Smruthi Venkat form the supporting cast. But the abysmal screenplay and staging of the film give us the Deja Vu of a dozen woeful thrillers that we remember for all the wrong reasons.Arulnithi's next outing in Kollywood, Dejavu has released in cinemas today and it is a crime thriller directed by debutant Arvindh Srinivasan. This only adds more to the misery.ĭejavu has been titled so to denote the series of events that repeat themselves after a year, exactly on the same day. Sadly, significant chunks of the Telugu portion have been retained for the Tamil version too. Casting a limited actor like Madhoo in a role with layers does take an extra toll on the overall film.įor those unaware, Dejavu was shot parallel in Telugu as Repeat, starring Naveen Chandra in Arulnithi's role. Had the filmmaker opted to show things visually instead of making his characters recite them, the damage would have been considerably dampened.Īchyuth Kumar and Arulnithi's invested performances and Ghibran's terrific score are perhaps the only elements that keep us invested in this unengaging ride. And the tool the filmmaker uses to drop these reveals is monologues! Almost every main character goes on a confession spree as if they were waiting for their turn in a queue. The penultimate reveals towards the end of the whodunit, makes us wonder more about 'Whys' and 'hows'. But here the DGP appoints a dull PC to overview the writer as he happily pens the crime scenes, sipping a glass of booze. For instance, in an ideal world, the writer would have been taken into custody within hours and the secret behind the ESP would be out in minutes. In an attempt to make the twists unguessable Arvindh sabotages the little he had built till then by making his leads react in unusual ways and take the oddest decisions. It is disappointing that the scenes which manage to escape this predictability are the ones where logic goes for a toss and the audience is taken for granted. It actually does the opposite, the cumbersome investigation turns the tables and the one predicting the forthcoming event is the audience, not the writer in the story.Ĭast: Arulnithi, Madhoo, Achyuth Kumar, Kali Venkat, Smruthi Venkat Though the writer's prediction game is initially fun, the film needed an equally interesting investigation track to keep the momentum going. His predictions are so accurate that he even gets the vehicle numbers of the suspects right, even before they board into one. A drunk novelist with supposed ESP (Extra Sensory Power) to predict crime scenes, pens a page describing a young girl's kidnap and his fiction turns out to be reality the next day. Debutant Arvindh Srinivasan's Dejavu has an impressive start.
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