Jeethu Joseph’s Drishyam films have yielded remakes in several languages, most profitably in Hindi. The Bollywood versions are led by Ajay Devgn, stepping into the role immortalised by Mohanlal – of the barely educated, devoted family man who comes up with a brilliant alibi to save his wife and older daughter from a murder rap. The crime is justified: the victim is the lecherous son of a senior police officer, and his killing is an accident.
In Drishyam 2, which yielded a mostly faithful remake in Hindi, Mohanlal’s Georgekutty was on the verge of being nabbed but managed to evade arrest. In Drishyam 3, released earlier this year, Georgekutty got away yet again, his Houdini act the result of scripting gymnastics that were crowd-pleasing but highly implausible. The ending hinted at a fourth movie.
The third Drishyam chapter in Hindi, directed by Abhishek Pathak, wants to avoid the mistakes made by the Malayalam production. The title itself – Drishyam The Conclusion – suggests that Bollywood isn’t keen on pursuing a franchise with diminishing returns.
There are only so much ways in which Vijay Salgaonkar (Ajay Devgn) can protect his spouse Nandini (Shriya Saran) and daughters Anju (Ishita Dutta) and Anu (Mrunal Jadhav) from the wrath of the murder victim’s mother Meera (Tabu) and father Mahesh (Rajat Kapoor)....
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