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Andha dhun is getting rave reviews on twitter by critics, most are calling it film of the year, some even saying best thriller ever made in Bollywood. And surprise surprise even KRK loved it lol. Tabu and Ayushman along with supporting cast getting great reviews too.

Cant wait to watch. Great year for Bollywood so far... hope it does @ BO too.

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...seems great... want to watch this 😃

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post your reviews when you watch this L!

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Andhadhun movie review: A terrific game of blind man's bluff. 5 stars

Andhadhun movie review: Sriram Raghvan's new thriller pulls off great tricks in plain sight. It will surprise you when you least expect it to.

Updated: Oct 05, 2018 13:06:43

By Raja Sen

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Andhadhun movie review: Tabu and Ayushmann Khuranna impress once again with their performances in the film.

Andhadhun

Director: Sriram Raghvan

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Radhika Apte, Tabu

Rating: 5/5

Everybody knows how a mystery should work. In Andhadhun, even a sweetly officious old lady prodding a policeman at a funeral, urging him to question the widow about a suspicion, has a clear idea of how he should conduct the enquiry. "Casual, casual, she entreats with a hissed whisper, as if she has done this before and knows better. Or, at the very least, as if she has watched enough films to warn her against the contrary.

It has become harder to make mystery movies because audiences have watched too many and, like spoilsport children around a birthday party magician, now make a game out of spotting sleight of hand and loudly predicting the next twist. This is why we need directors who refuse to be obvious. This phenomenal new thriller from Sriram Raghavan pulls off its tricks in plain sight. Everybody knows how a mystery should work, but Raghavan knows how all the mysteries work.

The film's leading man, Akash (Ayushmann Khurrana), wears an old-fashioned watch which allows him to elegantly pop open the glass face like in a pocket compass when he needs the time, so he can feel up the hour and minute hands. This is precisely how Sanjeev Kumar told time in the 1986 thriller, Qatl, about a blind man accused of murder. Akash, a piano player, was not born blind but tells us he lost his eyesight when struck by a cricket ball at the age of fourteen, which is, importantly, old enough for him to have been inspired by a rerun.

Whether Akash is genuinely blind is not the question or, at the very least, not the most important of questions. The film plays with the idea of sight, as some people find themselves blindfolded, while others wear masks to try and emulate the sightless focus' of which Akash boasts. Who is blinder: the one who can't see or the one who chooses not to?

And how does one gesticulate in front of a blind pianist? Simi (Tabu), the woman standing in front of Akash, is annoyed. She is irked first at her husband, for trying to surprise her on their anniversary, and then at this young piano player, who is one of her presents, and finally at herself. She moves her hands first too much, as if overcompensating, then self-consciously too little, and sighs with exasperation as she stares hard at him.

All this while, Akash like Raghavan plays on. The tinkling of the grand piano frequently washes over the noiseless actions of this film but seems also to dictate its momentum, like in the classic Tom & Jerry cartoons where elaborate farce was set to orchestral music. This is what gives Raghavan's relentless, absurdly poetic thriller its wings, the fact that we are breathless because of anticipation but also because of having laughed too hard. Andhadhun is a rare treat, a film so compelling that it may universally be considered irresistible. The theatre howled in unison. This is as it should be. We must remember Alfred Hitchcock made funny films.

This is a damnably hard film to write about without giving some games away. I can tell you the characters are phenomenal. A policeman, played by a hilarious Manav Vij, eats sixteen eggs a day "for protein, fears his wife and, despite his beefy body, fibs about terrorist encounters to appear tough. A young girl (a very natural Radhika Apte) is intrigued by the blind hero but direct enough to shun the "invisible tension of romantic gamesmanship because it gives her pimples. In a volatile role flashes the wondrous Ashwini Kalsekar, so electric in Raghavan's Johnny Gaddar, and Zakir Hussain is great as a doctor who has disconnected his cable TV connection before his son's exams. There is a fictitious actor from the 70s played, in a masterstroke, by 70s actor Anil Dhawan, glimpsed in vintage songs wearing a checkerboard blazer with a florid scarf. Now, he checks YouTube comments and marvels at having admirers as far away as Denmark.

"Denmark? Isn't that where Hamlet is set? asks the magnificent Tabu, who plays his wife. This self-aware character takes the black widow motif running through her most acclaimed roles she is even called Lady Macbeth' at one point and allows her to toy with expectations to create a most devastating noir character. She likes to keep her crabs in the freezer, lulling them to icy sleep, before boiling them so as not to shock them. It is an extraordinary character, and Tabu plays her with an air of inevitability, as if perpetually forced to slow down for the benefit of those around her. What a delicious, despicable performance. Has there ever been a femme as fatal as Tabu?

Ayushmann Khurrana is a restrained performer known best for unshowy, relatable roles. Andhadhun makes him break out of his affable routine as he makes his way across Raghavan's meticulously tangled web. He is a natural at the piano, and his body language in this film is pitch-perfect especially when it shouldn't be pitch-perfect. An earnest young man who swears on his piano keys while invoking Goddess Saraswati, Akash is no typically hardboiled noir hero. Khurrana plays him scrambled.

Andhadhun is a raucously good time at the movies I can't wait to watch it again tonight but the highest notes Raghavan hits are the human ones. Cinematographer KU Mohanan's frames frequently lie by omission, misleading us before showing us the whole picture; we could all do with better peripheral vision. Sometimes the music of Amit Trivedi cuts in, at other times it is Beethoven. Everybody deceives, and the film sets up what-if questions between the wall-to-wall gasps. Pooja Ladha Surti, Raghavan's editor (and one of his co-writers), keeps the pacing taut enough for the mind to wander only after the end credits. Like the policeman's diet, this is an all-protein film.

In keeping with so many of his characters, Raghavan learns from the movies. The production title for Andhadhun was Shoot The Piano Player, like Francois Truffaut's buoyant and impulsive 1960 film, and the film's inciting incident was officially adapted from a short film, The Piano Tuner. While Raghavan pays tribute to many the film is dedicated to music shows Chhayageet and Chitrahaar, and salutes sources as varied as Louis Malle and La La Land he creates something entirely his own. A film that would please both Truffaut and Vijay Anand sounds an impossible ask, but here we have it. You did it, Sriram, like nobody else had. You shot the piano player

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Box Office: AndhaDhun Day 1 in overseas

Bollywood Hungama News Network

Fri Oct 5 21:26:14 IST

The Ayushmann Khurrana - Tabu starrer AndhaDhun hit screens a day earlier in the overseas market. Directed by Sriram Raghavan the film opened on a good note and with positive reviews the business of the film is expected to see good growth.

In this box office report we take a look at the overseas collections of AndhaDhun on Day 1 (Friday). Australia box office 4,277 USD [Rs. 3.16 lacs] from 8 screens New Zealand box office 1,207 USD [Rs. 89,209] from 7 screens

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Kruti

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Posted: 6 years ago

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Damn!! Awesome reviews, very excited to watch this one!!

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Posted: 6 years ago

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really great movie it was pin drop silence in the theatre for the entire movie

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Venom Beats Loveyatri and Andhadhun On Day One

Saturday 06 October 2018 11.30 IST

Box Office India Trade Network

The new Hindi releases struggled at the box office with very low collections.as the initial audience preferred the Hollywood release Venom. Andhadhun and Loveyatri had opened with similar collections but it was the former that came out ahead as it was better in the evenings.

Andhadhun grossed in the 2.25-2.50 crore nett range which is a poor collection. The hero had these so callled hits last year like Bareilly Ki Barfi and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan but the opening of this film has not improved from that level one bit as the Andhadhun numbers sit right between Bareilly Ki Barfi and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan. Genuine HIT films improve the standing of an actor but films which are moderate successes and that too because of costs hardly make a difference and the media can push as much as they like. Also with films like Bareilly Ki Barfi, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan and even the recent Stree, the credit could be going to the girls especially Stree and Bareilly Ki Barfi.

Andhadhun will jump on Saturday but its about the weekday collections because unless Saturday and Sunday jump manifold it will be a low weekend number. The film may need to be similar on Monday to Friday to go anywhere at the box office due to this low opening day number.

Loveyatri grossed in the 1.75- 2 crore nett range which is even worse than Andhadhun. The film had music as its plus point but with a new cast it probably did not register with the audience visually. The film probably lost around 10 lakhs nett due to the cinema strike in MP. even Andhadhun would have lost some but Loveyatri would have lost more looking at the figures from places like UP and Rajasthan

Loveyatri will find it tough going as collections were weaker than Andhadhun in the evening which means the film will stay lower than that film and that film is not actually doing that well.

Venom was the best film as it collected 3.75-4 crore nett but even here this film had opened better and did not quite push through in the eveninga as it had looked cruising past the 4 crore nett mark but the collections have actually come out a bit less. Still the film should manage to have a fair weekend.

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Posted: 6 years ago

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Just saw the movie..A twisted ride that offers plenty of thriils in those 140 minutes .The film is unpredictable to the core and you can not guess what is in the store next .Ayushman performs like never before .Radhika does not have much to do.Tabu is the real scene stealer .Her negative streak comes superbly well .

Just do not miss the beginning for it gets connected to the climax and the film ends with an element of mystery..

A decent one time watch for sure..

3.5 on 5

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Really enjoyed Andhadhun. Story is a bit like Race and Kahaani with a thriller element, but twists and turns every 5 minutes. Ayushman was good (easily most challenging role for him so far), Radhika was hardly there but was decent. Anil Dhawan (David dhawans brother, yesteryear actor) was good too, Manav Vij and Ashwini Kalsekar were good as well. This movie belong solely to Tabu though, she was just amazing. It's nice 90s actresss like Tabu, Kajol, Rani all still around and even Madhuri coming back next year with Kalank. Definitely worth a watch!

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