Sailesh Kolanu’s ‘HIT: The Third Case’, starring Nani, is a solid, clever installment in a solid, clever franchise

The earlier HIT films surprised us with twisted investigation stories that hinged on one perpetrator, but the third movie takes it further with a gleeful amount of gore. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

If I opened up director Sailesh Kolanu’s brain, I think I’d see a very dark and twisted soul. And dark and twisted souls are exactly the kind you want for investigative thrillers revolving around dark and twisted antagonists. The first HIT movie discovered deep hate in something as innocent as an orphanage, and the second film’s serial killer had his roots in a childhood incident. I thought the third case would involve yet another creative killer, but this time, Sailesh brilliantly amps up the stakes by having several killers spread out over the country. The way they kill their victims is the same. And what’s more shocking is the point we see Nani (as a cop named Arjun Sarkar) doing something similar. Are we in one of those movies where the hero is also the villain? Is Nani trying to get rid of his good-boy image?

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