Bhramam

The challenge with remaking a perfect classic like Andhadhun is not in just finding the right balance between the various genres it encompassed, but also in casting the right actors who can emote well in both the harrowing drama sequences as well as the situational comedy.

DOP-turned director Ravi K Chandran unfortunately fails in doing just that. A more commercialized take of the 2018 National Award winning film, Bhramam's first glaring failure is casting Mamtha Mohandas in the role played by Tabu.

A Machiavellian, femme fatale role that needed a lot of nuance and fine tuned expressions, Mamtha unfortunately is not able to deliver most of the elements convincingly. Even Prithviraj, while shining in the dramatic elements, feels out of place in the comic sequences, a genre he has always struggled with.

For a film telling us the story of a seemingly blind musician, it is appalling that the music for the film is so pedestrian. Raashi Khanna is a major eyesore as Prithviraj's love interest.

She stumbles through a blink-and-miss role with haphazard lip synchronizations leaving us wondering why she was cast in the first place. Unni Mukundan is inadvertently funny in a beefed up cop role and delivers an adequate performance.

Remaking Andhadhun, which straddled the dark comedy and moral dilemma-laced drama genres so elegantly was always going to be a challenge. And Bhramam unfortunately couldn't rise up to meet it.

Not recommended!

I don't understand the point of a scene to scene remake.! N if anybody could have done better with this role it would have been Fahaad Fazil. He would have added a new dimension to this whole movie.! This was a role not really suited to Prithvi.

Felt like a mediocre parody of Andhadhun made in some other language dubbed into Malayalam. It helped me to realise how good Andhadhun was.

Bhraman notably fails on casting.. While I think Prithviraj and Shankar pulled through however Mamta, Unni Mukundan and Rashi were poor choices. They didn't fit into the characters naturally to justify them.. Personally I think Asha Sharath (Drishyam fame) would have cracked this better.. There were gaps in Andhadhun's story telling which was gripping and left viewers second guessing.. Bhramam was almost like the tutorial class to the prequel. Too much clarification and explanations.. infact all my doubts from Hindi class got resolved after this.

Organ racketeers are brutal.. Jagadeesh was comical and sympathetic.. Worse part.. a Malayalam song in a Paris club sung by Prithviraj and some cheap foreigners for extras..

Not that I am comparing this with the original version. But this is a very sincere remake with very weak acting.

Casting is good but performances are not.

Prithvi is a good stoic actor but not a great one at it.

Mamta was good. Unni as usual is the muscle mass. Jagadish does his part.

Things looked too forced.

Now if you compare with andhadhun. Definitely Ayushman was just awesome With the fiery tabu it was just magical.

Now it's a different topic if Ayushman deserved a national award and no less.....

Watchable.