Jeethu Joseph’s ‘Mirage’ isn’t up to his other thrillers, but it’s still junky fun
- Trinity Auditorium
- Sep 22
- 1 min read
Asif Ali and Aparna Balamurali start investigating a financial wrongdoing, and things get murkier as we discover there are secrets within secrets within secrets. This a film where the twists are not always very organic, but it’s still watchable. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
The tagline for Mirage is “fades as you get closer”, and this could be the tagline for almost every Jeethu Joseph thriller. You think you’re seeing something, and then you realise that that something isn’t what you think it is. Asif Ali plays Ashwin. The mirage is that he runs an online channel dedicated to fact-driven journalism. The reality is something else. Aparna Balamurali plays Abhirami, and the mirage is that she is a financial consultant who falls for a man in the same company. The reality is something else. Hakim Shahjahan plays Kiran, the man Abhirami is in love with. In the opening scenes, the mirage is that he dies in a train accident. The reality – as shown in flashbacks – is something else. Hannah Reji Koshy plays Abhirami’s friend and colleague, Ritika. She, too, is a mirage – she has another reality. In the director’s finest films, the twists and misdirections – that is, the mirages – are so organic that the storytelling sucks you in. If you expect that quality in Mirage… well, the reality is something else.
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