Antakshari movie evaluate: A musical recreation with a serial killer that moderately falls flat

Possibilities of one coming throughout a police officer who would make suspects play a recreation of Antakshari are nearly as nil as discovering a psycho killer who would make his sufferer play the musical recreation. In Antakshari, we get each.

However then, initially, we’re taken in by the novelty and the wit in Circle Inspector Das’ (Saiju Kurup) interactions with suspects, that are all constructed round Antakshari, the sport that entails singing a music beginning with the final letter of the one sung by the earlier participant.

The enjoyable doesn’t final although. Quickly, Das will get an nameless name difficult him to play the identical recreation, failing which his daughter’s life could be at risk. He refuses and his daughter comes near dying by the hands of a masked man with a music on his lips. Das and a younger officer (Sudhi Koppa) start an investigation into previous circumstances the place the killer used comparable strategies to strangle victims.

The trail to the killer is strewn with so many pink herrings and parallel tracks that the scriptwriter even forgets to convey closure to a few of these in the long run. There’s the physician (Kannan Nayar) on the clinic the place Das’ spouse Chitra (Priyanka Nair) works. He’s a pervert and has issues mendacity round in his workplace that might join him to the crimes, but we clearly know that that is simply an try at deceptive us, by the half-hearted manner wherein these sequences are written and staged. The identical is the case with the half involving an area politician (Vijay Babu), who can be portrayed as a attainable suspect.

Aspect story

One other diversion comes within the type of a facet story involving a budding musician, his abusive step-father and a mysterious woman subsequent door. Later within the movie, an try is made to attach this story to the central narrative, nevertheless it seems contrived. What works for the movie for an excellent half is the truth that it manages to maintain the suspense alive, however the sluggish and efficient build-up appears wasted in the long run, going by the twisted and unconvincing conclusion it arrives at.

It’d look like an excellent factor when psychological well being turns into a subject of debate, however the killer’s random fixations that result in a sequence of murders appear too far-fetched to shock us. Caste discrimination can be a facet that is available in at a number of locations, in a narrative from the previous, and inside the police power.

The novelty consider Antakshari wears off rapidly, even because the unconvincing climax takes the sheen off the cautious build-up.

The movie is streaming on Sony Liv