One of the strengths of Papanasam is how it makes us side with both these two characters in the end.

At one point, she sees through his game plan but can she prove that they are lies? But his opponent, Geetha Prabhakar (Asha Sarath), is equally clever she is a woman, a mother and a cop - and all these three kinds of people are known for their instinct. Suyambulingam will not let his family suffer and so, hatches upon an elaborate plot - inspired by the movies he has watched and his innate street smartness - to create water-tight alibis. When Selvi is blackmailed by Varun (Roshan), who has shot a scandalous video of her, the situation goes out of control and the boy ends up dead.

But what he cares the most is his family - his wife Rani (Gauthami, decent in her comeback role) and daughters Selvi (Nivetha Thomas) and Meena (Esther Anil). His cable TV business serves as a perfect outlet for his obsessive cinema watching (he even stays up at his office during the night to watch movies on TV and goes home only in the mornings). Suyambulingam is someone who has made it big in life all by himself and he takes pride in the fact. This approach makes Suyambulingam one among us, so in addition to caring for the character, we begin to see every problem that he encounters as our own. Mohanlal nicely underplayed the role and gave us the impression of a man who was confident of winning the cat-and-mouse game he was playing with the cops, Kamal Haasan makes the character more emotional and we see a man who cannot afford to lose. Script-wise, there are no major changes save for the fact that the protoganist Suyambulingam (Kamal Haasan) is a markedly different character from that of the original’s George Kutty. Right from the slang, the local milieu is so well realized that the film transports us to the place. The small town setting, where everyone knows one another, is crucial to the plot and Jeethu Joseph’s convincingly sets his slow-burning crime thriller in picturesque Papanasam.

The film is almost a frame-by-frame remake of the Malayalam film and still, it doesn’t give that vibe of being a remake. Review: The best thing about Papanasam is how convincingly it makes us forget the original Drishyam, and manages to stand on its own. With the victim the son of a cop, can he get away with it? Synopsis: A cinephile tries to protect his family by hiding a heat-of-the-moment murder committed by his daughter by taking cues from the films he has watched.

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