Andhadhun Review

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Tabu, Radhika Apte

Music: Amit Trivedi, Raftaar Girish Nakod

Direction: Sriram Raghavan

*Spoiler Ahead*

“This is a long story. Coffee?” the opening dialogues in the blank screen. The scene opens with a farm land owner trying to shoot a notorious blind rabbit. This has nothing to do with the film, until the writing connects the main story. The film is a complete circle, every character serves a purpose and has an ending. Even a small character like the neighbor kid who is curious to know whether Akash (Ayushmann Khurrana) is blind or not gets a good character ending. Akash is a piano player who blinds himself in seek of focus. His experiment of being blind to gain more focus becomes miserable being a wrong place.

The entire scene where Akash goes to play piano in Pramod Sinha (Anil Dhawan) house is brilliantly staged. The cinematography with the piano background score brings audience to the edge of the seat. The story development till the interval is amazing, post that I wouldn’t say it becomes worse but falls less interesting. There are some good scenes like the scene where he escapes by revealing a tattoo, but the cinematic experience is lost. Even the background that was refreshing in the first half became mundane.

Even with these, the film is well made and probably the ending would blow your mind out. The screenplay connecting every single character is amazing. If Akash wasn’t experimenting as blind, he wouldn’t have met Sophie (Radhika Apte) and he wouldn’t have played piano in her restaurant and he wouldn’t have met Pramod Sinha and so forth.

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