Tharun Moorthy’s ‘Thudarum’, with Mohanlal and Shobana, tries to be a spoofy meta movie and an over-the-top mass movie

The ‘Drishyam’-like story involves a murder. And once again, Mohanlal becomes an ordinary family man put in extraordinary circumstances. But the intrigue factor is drowned out by the loud ‘mass’ treatment. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

I think this is what Tharun Moorthy has tried to do with Thudarum. He has tried to make a meta movie by taking one of Mohanlal’s most beloved films – Drishyam – and filtering it through the lens of star worship. In Drishyam, Mohanlal played a movie-crazy family man who runs a cable-TV service. In Thudarum, he plays a family man nicknamed Benz, and he was actually in the movies, as a stunt person. In Drishyam, Mohanlal’s character was called George. Here, that name belongs to someone else. In Drishyam, we had the cover-up of an accidental murder, involving a young woman caught in a compromising position. In Thudarum, we get a mention of a young woman caught in a compromising position, and yes, here, too, a young man ends up killed, and a cover-up follows. In both films, the family of the protagonist ends up tortured by a relentless cop.

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