And Bhramam unfortunately couldn't rise up to meet it. Remaking Andhadhun, which straddled the dark comedy and moral dilemma-laced drama genres so elegantly was always going to be a challenge. Unni Mukundan is inadvertently funny in a beefed up cop role and delivers an adequate performance. She stumbles through a blink-and-miss role with haphazard lip synchronizations leaving us wondering why she was cast in the first place. Raashi Khanna is a major eyesore as Prithviraj's love interest. For a film telling us the story of a seemingly blind musician, it is appalling that the music for the film is so pedestrian. Even Prithviraj, while shining in the dramatic elements, feels out of place in the comic sequences, a genre he has always struggled with.
A Machiavellian, femme fatale role that needed a lot of nuance and fine tuned expressions, Mamtha unfortunately is not able to deliver most of the elements convincingly.
A more commercialized take of the 2018 National Award winning film, Bhramam's first glaring failure is casting Mamtha Mohandas in the role played by Tabu. DOP-turned director Ravi K Chandran unfortunately fails in doing just that.
The challenge with remaking a perfect classic like Andhadhun is not in just finding the right balance between the various genres it encompassed, but also in casting the right actors who can emote well in both the harrowing drama sequences as well as the situational comedy.
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