BSP Varma’s ‘Murphy’, starring Prabhu Mundkur, is a tasteful, emotional sci-fi drama about a man who finds a way to time-travel through a radio

The most interesting aspect of the film is its pace. The director is in no hurry. He savours every moment, and makes us feel the maximum impact. The rest of this review may contain spoilers…

There’s a lovely image in an early scene of Murphy, where an old radio box resembles a human face. The two knobs on either side of the frequency bar look like eyes, and below, there’s a bar that resembles a mouth. This image occurs in a dimly lit repair shop, so this may be completely my imagination – but this is a story in which a radio set does function like a messenger. It connects two people in Goa, across two different timelines. Some parts of the plot reminded me of the 2000 sci-fi thriller Frequency, but Murphy – directed by BSP Varma – isn’t a thriller. It is a gently told tale of relationships: between father and son, between grandfather and grandson, between boyfriend and girlfriend, between a woman and the teacher she has a crush on, and between the two people connected across time.

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