Review of The Body (2019) . . .
Jeethu Joseph who made Drishyam a brilliant thriller in Malyalam which later got remade in other languages Tamil and Hindi. Papanasam(Tamil) starring Kamal Haasan & Drishyam(Hindi) starring Ajay Devgn. All versions of Drishyam were very well made and loved by people. This Director once again came up with another murder mystery thriller which is officially adaption of Spanish film by the same name The Body.
I'm big fan of thriller films and sometimes i wonder why Hindi film industry people don't make such unusual murder mysteries like Hollywood or any other film industry. In 2019 Badla came starring Amitabh Bachchan & Tapsee Pannu which was also remake of Spanish film but Bollywood produces more than 100 films in a year and ratio of crime suspense thriller is very low and even nowadays some good web series are coming in this genre and people loving it and Hollywood also producing many film of this genre successfully since years then why Bollywood is behind in the race?
Well film makers more interested in money games than providing content cinema or scared of experiments.
Jeethu Joseph who made several regional films The Body is his debut film in Hindi. Yes Dirshyam was originally written by him and he directed other two versions Tamil & Malyalam while Hindi Drishyam was directed by Nishikant Kamat so as a director this one is his first hindi film.
I have not seen the original Spanish film The Body so not able to compare but gonna write about what I liked about this hindi adaption.
Story of Ajay Puri (Emraan Hashmi) whose wife is dead and body kept in morgue and same night The Body disappears. One Cop (Rishi Kapoor) is taking the charge of investigation of this body of powerful businesswoman (Shobhita Dhulipala) whom Emraan Hashmi married for wealth only and he is already started to be in touch with another girl played by (Vedhika) and they plan a mysterious murder of his wife to acquire all the properties post natural death. Emraan giving her dose of one medicine along with vine which causes heart attack post 8 hours of consumption.
80% of the story set in hospital in just one night where Rishi Kapoor is investigating the case with his officers and kept Emraan Hashmi there as a suspect. Rishi Ji feels that he has murdered his wife. Actually it's not the suspense for us we the audiences know it he killed his wife but police doesn't know it and also they and we have one more suspense that where's the body has gone? Who has taken away The Body from morgue and most importantly why?
In the initial scenes i felt that it's a horror film while later i got to know it's not a horror but murder mystery then again i thought it's gonna be a superficial thriller but then later got to know it's something another genre so this is how from beginning to end it kept me hooked but yes in this kind of engaging thriller film unfortunately there were 4 songs which i had to let go for better focus and even none of them were necessary for the script. Thank God Jhalak Dikh La Ja was missing and made for promotional part only.
Screenplay is engaging enough as it is not very lengthy film. Many scenes are in the hospital in just one night. Interrogation scene of Rishi Ji with Emraan is finest scene from the film, interval block, climax etc i found quite interesting. As per storyline it should have been pure murder mystery but still we can't deny the fact that our Bollywood film makers can't make a film without adding masalas or glamour unnecessarily. It has songs and unnecessarily romance of Emmy with two girls which could have been avoided if they wanted to but it happened in history of Bollywood it's happening and i think it will keep happening like this whenever they are going to adopt any film from any industry.
Direction is fine here not as much great like Drishyam. I wonder he's the one who made the Drishyam so he could have definitely made it more tighter than it is. Some scenes are well made while overall execution is fine cinematography is also very nice in hospital scenes.
Background Music by Clinton Cerejo is quite ok but this kind of thriller requires Kickass background score. Editing job done nicely.
Performance by Shobhita Dhulipala is very nice but she did better work earlier so here nothing new for her but she plays her part so well.
Vedhika looks glamorous and does her part with an ease. She's looking very cute in several scenes.
I must mention Rukhsar Rehman has very less to do here but if more space was given to her then she would have definitely done it confidently. She's damn good actress and would love to see her doing Kickass roles in future.
Emraan Hashmi excellent as always in thriller roles. His image is serial kissser but for me he's damn brilliant actor. I just love him a lot. We have seen him doing outstanding roles earlier so here again he did his job very well.
Lastly Rishi Kapoor Ji reminded me of his role of cop from Aurangzeb film. What a great performer he is specially in his second inning. Be it Agneepath or Aurangzeb or Do Dooni Char he shines and lives his roles with full confidence. What a dialogue delivery. So much respect for him.
Overall it's a quiet nice engaging murder mystery not a great one as it has no logical points and some loopholes but eventually we will say cinema hai to thodi bahot liberty chalti hai. But i really wish Bollywood should make some more films in this genre.
My Ratings
3.2/5.
--- by Harsh Desai Filmy . . .
Jeethu Joseph who made Drishyam a brilliant thriller in Malyalam which later got remade in other languages Tamil and Hindi. Papanasam(Tamil) starring Kamal Haasan & Drishyam(Hindi) starring Ajay Devgn. All versions of Drishyam were very well made and loved by people. This Director once again came up with another murder mystery thriller which is officially adaption of Spanish film by the same name The Body.
I'm big fan of thriller films and sometimes i wonder why Hindi film industry people don't make such unusual murder mysteries like Hollywood or any other film industry. In 2019 Badla came starring Amitabh Bachchan & Tapsee Pannu which was also remake of Spanish film but Bollywood produces more than 100 films in a year and ratio of crime suspense thriller is very low and even nowadays some good web series are coming in this genre and people loving it and Hollywood also producing many film of this genre successfully since years then why Bollywood is behind in the race?
Well film makers more interested in money games than providing content cinema or scared of experiments.
Jeethu Joseph who made several regional films The Body is his debut film in Hindi. Yes Dirshyam was originally written by him and he directed other two versions Tamil & Malyalam while Hindi Drishyam was directed by Nishikant Kamat so as a director this one is his first hindi film.
I have not seen the original Spanish film The Body so not able to compare but gonna write about what I liked about this hindi adaption.
Story of Ajay Puri (Emraan Hashmi) whose wife is dead and body kept in morgue and same night The Body disappears. One Cop (Rishi Kapoor) is taking the charge of investigation of this body of powerful businesswoman (Shobhita Dhulipala) whom Emraan Hashmi married for wealth only and he is already started to be in touch with another girl played by (Vedhika) and they plan a mysterious murder of his wife to acquire all the properties post natural death. Emraan giving her dose of one medicine along with vine which causes heart attack post 8 hours of consumption.
80% of the story set in hospital in just one night where Rishi Kapoor is investigating the case with his officers and kept Emraan Hashmi there as a suspect. Rishi Ji feels that he has murdered his wife. Actually it's not the suspense for us we the audiences know it he killed his wife but police doesn't know it and also they and we have one more suspense that where's the body has gone? Who has taken away The Body from morgue and most importantly why?
In the initial scenes i felt that it's a horror film while later i got to know it's not a horror but murder mystery then again i thought it's gonna be a superficial thriller but then later got to know it's something another genre so this is how from beginning to end it kept me hooked but yes in this kind of engaging thriller film unfortunately there were 4 songs which i had to let go for better focus and even none of them were necessary for the script. Thank God Jhalak Dikh La Ja was missing and made for promotional part only.
Screenplay is engaging enough as it is not very lengthy film. Many scenes are in the hospital in just one night. Interrogation scene of Rishi Ji with Emraan is finest scene from the film, interval block, climax etc i found quite interesting. As per storyline it should have been pure murder mystery but still we can't deny the fact that our Bollywood film makers can't make a film without adding masalas or glamour unnecessarily. It has songs and unnecessarily romance of Emmy with two girls which could have been avoided if they wanted to but it happened in history of Bollywood it's happening and i think it will keep happening like this whenever they are going to adopt any film from any industry.
Direction is fine here not as much great like Drishyam. I wonder he's the one who made the Drishyam so he could have definitely made it more tighter than it is. Some scenes are well made while overall execution is fine cinematography is also very nice in hospital scenes.
Background Music by Clinton Cerejo is quite ok but this kind of thriller requires Kickass background score. Editing job done nicely.
Performance by Shobhita Dhulipala is very nice but she did better work earlier so here nothing new for her but she plays her part so well.
Vedhika looks glamorous and does her part with an ease. She's looking very cute in several scenes.
I must mention Rukhsar Rehman has very less to do here but if more space was given to her then she would have definitely done it confidently. She's damn good actress and would love to see her doing Kickass roles in future.
Emraan Hashmi excellent as always in thriller roles. His image is serial kissser but for me he's damn brilliant actor. I just love him a lot. We have seen him doing outstanding roles earlier so here again he did his job very well.
Lastly Rishi Kapoor Ji reminded me of his role of cop from Aurangzeb film. What a great performer he is specially in his second inning. Be it Agneepath or Aurangzeb or Do Dooni Char he shines and lives his roles with full confidence. What a dialogue delivery. So much respect for him.
Overall it's a quiet nice engaging murder mystery not a great one as it has no logical points and some loopholes but eventually we will say cinema hai to thodi bahot liberty chalti hai. But i really wish Bollywood should make some more films in this genre.
My Ratings
3.2/5.
--- by Harsh Desai Filmy . . .
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