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Star Cast: Arjun Rampal, Priyamani, Akash Makhija and others
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
What’s Good: Arjun Rampal’s effortless, brooding screen presence and Priyamani’s sincere attempt to add weight to a screenplay that slips through the fingers like dry sand.
What’s Bad: A sluggish narrative that takes a brilliant 2014 Malayalam premise and stretches it into a logic-defying boredom.
Loo Break: Pretty much anytime characters start explaining plot points that make zero sense.
Watch or Not?: Only if you’ve never seen 7th Day and have two hours to spare
Language: Hindi with subtitles
Available On: Zee5 for Free
Runtime: 1 hour and 53 minutes
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When a film begins with a death, missing cash, and a group of friends who may be hiding more than they say, you expect a game of cat and mouse. Blind Game, however, plays hide-and-seek with its own logic.
The setup is solid. It is a Hindi adaptation of the 2014 Malayalam thriller 7th Day, so the premise and the soul of this mystery thriller should never have been a problem! The problem is what Blind Game does with this soul! Stay with us with this review to find out!
Blind Game Movie Review: Script Analysis
The story follows Sikander Singh (Arjun Rampal), a suspended crime-branch officer who lands in Manali while tracking a gangster named David Walter Williams, a man the film wants you to believe is the most dangerous criminal in Southeast Asia. Along the way, he gets tangled in a case involving 5 crore in missing money and a bunch of friends, each with a secret and a motive. Yamini (Priyamani), a police officer, joins the investigation.
How do they bump into each other, and why does it turn into one of the most absurd and redundant thrillers you have seen in the recent past, turns the premise of the film!
Blind Game Movie Review: Star Performance
Arjun Rampal is the film’s anchor. He looks the part and carries Sikander with a calm, weary authority that makes you believe he’s a cop who’s seen too much. He isn’t given much to play with, but he never lets the film’s silliness seep into his performance. Credit where it’s due.
Priyamani is as sincere as Yamini, and you wish the film trusted her enough to do more with the role. She holds her own whenever she’s on screen, but the writing keeps her on the sidelines of a story she should be driving.
Rohit Chandel, Nakul Roshan Sahdev, and Akash Makhija do what they can, but the characters are thinly sketched, so the performances never go beyond expectations. When the big reveals arrive, you feel nothing, and that’s less on the actors than on the script.
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Blind Game Movie Review: Direction, Music
Sangeeth Sivan’s final directorial outing is a bittersweet watch. You can see his command over the genre, and Manali’s snowy landscapes are used well to build a mood of suspicion. The film is competently shot and moves at a brisk pace, which keeps things watchable even when the plot stops making sense.
But a good-looking thriller is only half a thriller. The execution never matches the ambition, and the climax asks you to buy so much, so quickly, that it turns from suspenseful into absurd. Since the script is already weak, the music does not help much either!
The film suffers from a severe lack of conviction in its own material. The original Malayalam film worked because it relied on raw grit, tension, and a premise where every twist landed like a banger! Even the climax was mindblowing! Here? The adaptation turns absurd so quickly that you spend half your time scratching your head at the screenplay choices rather than guessing the whodunit.
Blind Game Movie Review: The Last Word
Blind Game has a cop worth rooting for, a location worth looking at, and a mystery that, in another telling, worked. What it doesn’t have is the discipline to let its twists breathe. It’s a thriller that mistakes more for better.
Rampal and Priyamani try their best to hold it together, but even good cops can’t save a bad case. A free watch on ZEE5, and still a bit overpriced.
At the end of the day, Blind Game proves that copying a solid template doesn’t guarantee a functioning blueprint. It turns out as redundant as the letter ‘N’ in ‘Damn’ – unnecessary, repetitive, and ultimately leaving you wondering why it was ever built that way in the first place.
2 stars.
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