A Classic

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2010)

The movie is good. I t has all the ingredients of a genuine thriller and has no elements which deprive it of class. The screenplay is good and the movie beautifully meanders through the various stages of storytelling.
On the other hand , the mere fact that the movie is brilliant as a thriller also is a give-away as curious and vigilant viewers would be easily able to tear down the curtains off the mystery quite early on in the movie.
The thing which then captivates their mind is the question that is the Protagonist actually insane?
This is the question which holds the movie together from the time "who is 67?" appears in the script.
In fact the director's skill in substituting one mystery for another in the early stages of the movie is quite commendable.
No matter what the answer to that question may be, the movie keeps the viewer interested till the very last scene. The director also plays around with the time tested "interpretative theme" and lays before the viewer two highly probable alternate scenarios, which cannot co-exist.
The movie thus has two plots running simultaneously yet merged into one.
I would say a pleasing thriller, not entirely unpredictable in terms of what it reveals but uncommonly intelligent in what it seeks to conceal.