Tabu is widely praised and the climax mostly lands, but critics are divided on whether Devgn's performance works and whether the Hindi remake measures up to the original.
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Summary
Drishyam (2015, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 62 from 5 critic reviews, is rated 13+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A 13+), and streams on Prime Video in India.
When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.
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When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.
Drishyam (2015, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 62 from 5 critic reviews, is rated 13+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A 13+), and streams on Prime Video in India.
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Ramnath argues the Hindi Drishyam works only where it reproduces the Malayalam original beat-for-beat, undone by Ajay Devgn's miscasting as the… Read it there →
Sen calls the film ordinary, overlong and undercut by a wooden, cardboard Devgn performance, though Tabu impresses; the promised cat-and-mouse… Read it there →
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32
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Drishyam is streaming on OTT: Prime Video (India) and JioHotstar (India). It can also be rented or bought on Apple TV (India, the US, the UK and Canada), YouTube (India, the US, the UK and Canada) and Google Play Movies (the US). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Drishyam?
Drishyam has a Filmi Score of 62 (Good), the mean of 5 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 32 (Rediff) to 90 (Gulf News). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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