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Zee Studios, Echelon Production and Outsiders Films’ Blurr (A) is a whodunit suspense thriller. It is the official remake of Spanish film Los Ojos De Julia (Julia’s Eyes), written by Guillem Morales and Oriol Paulo.
Gayatri and Gautami are twins. Gautami has vision problems and over time, she has lost complete vision. She stays alone in a hilly area. One day, Gayatri and her husband, Neil (Gulshan Devaiah), reach Gautami’s home only to find her hanging to her death. Gayatri can’t believe that Gautami can commit suicide. She also feels the presence of someone in Gautami’s house and wherever she goes and concludes that he is out to kill her as he must have murdered her sister too. Did Gautami end her life or was she murdered? What happens to Gayatri and Neil?
Pawan Sony and Ajay Bahl have written a story and screenplay, which are loose in the sense that despite being a thriller, the drama gives the audience a lot of time to think. It appears to the viewers that Gayatri is actually inviting trouble even if that entails a threat to her life. It is just not clear why Gayatri, after her eye surgery, would opt to stay in Gautami’s bungalow all alone, even though her eyes have to be kept bandaged for several days. And mind you, Gautami had committed suicide in the same bungalow. What’s worse is that Gayatri doesn’t shift back to the hospital even when she once again realises the presence of someone in Gautami’s huge bungalow. It is because of this that the audience gets irritated and actually, in a way, stops feeling sorry for her predicament because it seems to be the result of her own stupidity. It is also not clear what the person is following Gayatri for? Even at the time of the revelation of the suspense, it is not clarified, why he was following Gayatri so many times. Another drawback is that there are no happy characters in the drama. Several characters behave weirdly for no real reason. Even the suspense is so convoluted that its revelation hardly affords the thrill it should have. Unless the audiences are given a fair chance of guessing who the culprit is, it doesn’t give them satisfaction. In this case, the viewers realise that they could never have guessed the identity of the culprit, and this feeling is very counter-productive to the film. Besides, the drama appears long and boring. Overall, the film hardly has a happy moment and is, in fact, depressing to the core, the heavy rains and the darkness only adding to the depressing feel of the film. The duo’s dialogues are alright.
Taapsee Pannu does a fair job in a double role as Gayatri and Gautami, but her performance doesn’t stand out, maybe because of lack of a convincing script. Gulshan Devaiah delivers a mature performance as Neil. Abhilash Thapliyal is fairly good as Deepak. Sorabh Chauhan lends decent support as Bipin Nath. Krutika Desai Khan is natural as Mrs. Radha Solanki, but her character is weird. Nitya Mathur has her moments as Ira. Sumit Nijhawan makes his mark as Mahendra Chandel. Raja Sevak (as Dr. Raman), Nirmala Chandra (as blind girl Usha), S.M. Zaheer (as old man Rajendra Saha), Apoorva Sinha (as Deepak), Hema Bisht ( as blind lady Runa), Manisha Tiwari (as blind lady Sunita), Pratibha Pant (as blind lady Hema), Rema Yadav (as blind lady Saba), Shweta Pandey (as blind lady Lata), Abhishek Deswal (as the hotel manager), Rajat Sukhija (as the receptionist), Rakshit Pant (as the receptionist), Devendra Bisht and Aakash Negi (both as Saat Taal cops), Bhupendra Prasad and Anwar Raza (both as policemen) and the rest lend ordinary support.
Ajay Bahl’s direction is just about okay but a far more taut handling of the whodunit was required. Ketan Sodha’s background music is quite nice. Sudhir Chaudhary’s cinematography is effective in creating the right mood. Aejaz Gulab’s action and stunts are okay. Nilesh Wagh’s production designing is quite alright. Manish Pradhan’s editing ought to have been sharper.
On the whole, Blurr is a dull fare and will not find much patronage.
Released on 9-12-’22 on Zee5.