Mirage film assessment: Jeethu Joseph drowns us within the mirage of an ideal thriller

Sometimes, the ultimate moments in a film abruptly brings its title to thoughts, making us marvel on the ingenuity of naming it that means. Jeethu Joseph’s Mirage makes an attempt one thing comparable, solely that one is left questioning how the titular warning was not totally understood. The ultimate act of the film is crammed with mirages, one scene after one other, every of which misleads us into pondering that that is the large reveal, just for the screenwriter to throw one other ‘twist’ within the story at us.

After encountering a number of such mirages, one huffs and puffs to succeed in the true climax of the movie, vowing by no means to belief any character in a movie. In the bigger scheme of issues, screenwriters Jeethu and Srinivasan Abrol are additionally looking for a mirage — that of the proper thriller climax which nobody would guess. Red herrings, convoluted tales and obscure incidents tenuously linked to the narrative are thrown at us with this sole purpose. That additionally proves to be the movie’s undoing.

The narrative revolves across the loss of life of Kiran (Hakkim Shajahan) in a practice accident. His fiancée Abhirami (Aparna Balamurali) suspects that there’s extra to his loss of life than meets the attention when the henchman of a businessman and a prime police officer winds up at her doorstep searching for a tough disk with probably explosive materials that Kiran was purported to have with him. Joining her within the endless quest for the laborious disk is Ashwin (Asif Ali), reporter of an internet channel who’s looking out for an enormous story.

Even because the movie plunges us straight into the thriller, with out losing a lot time in setting the scene and easing us into it, the over-dramatic presentation and the stilted dialogues, particularly of the obvious antagonists, offers one an inkling of what’s in retailer. One of the characters, who’s proven as being near the protagonist, is written and portrayed in such an clearly suspicious method, that the large reveal in regards to the individual on the half-way level seems virtually laughable. Or perhaps, that was an apparent giveaway to mislead us forward of all of the earth-shattering twists in retailer.

One is left intrigued by the thriller solely at a couple of factors, particularly throughout Abhirami’s encounter with Kiran’s mom. Except for these few phases, the movie serves us a variation of the identical sequence of occasions, of the protagonists following some lead whereas being pursued from both aspect, adopted by a reveal. The staging of a number of the scenes is so bizarre that even the shock of the occasions don’t get adequately conveyed to us.

The absence of a coherent, plausible screenplay and the compulsion to ship one surprising twist after one other drains Mirage of any impression. 

Mirage is at present operating in cinemas