Drishyam

Vijay Salgaonkar (Ajay Devgn) is an orphan who had dropped out of school after his 4th grade. Now he is a contented successful businessman running a cable TV service called Mirage Cable in Pondolem, Goa. He is married to Nandini (Shriya Saran), and they have two daughters, Anju, his adopted daughter (Ishita Dutta), a class twelve student, and Anu, a class six student. His only interest apart from his family is watching films. He spends most of his time in front of the TV in his small office.

During a nature camp, a hidden cell phone camera records Anju changing clothes in the bathroom. The culprit, Sam aka Sameer (Rishabh Chaddha), is the son of Inspector General of Goa Police, Meera Deshmukh (Tabu). Sam comes to blackmail Anju for sexual favors when Vijay is not home. Nandini intervenes and pleads with Sam to leave their family alone, but Sam refuses to leave them or delete the video clip unless his demand is fulfilled. In an attempt to break the offending cell phone, Anju takes a swing at Sam with a lead pipe, but she strikes him in the head instead, killing him immediately.

They hide his body in a compost pit, which is witnessed by Anu. At morning, Nandini tells Vijay about the incident and he devises a way to save his family from the police. He removes the broken cell phone and disposes of Sams car, which is seen by the corrupt Sub-Inspector Laxmikant Gaitonde (Kamlesh Sawant), who has a grudge against Vijay. The next day, Vijay takes his family out on a trip to Panjim, where they visit an Ashram, watch a movie, and eat at a restaurant. Meera, realising that her son has gone missing, starts an investigation.

After a preliminary investigation, Meera calls Vijay and family for questioning. Having predicted that the police would come calling eventually, Vijay coaches his family on how to face the interrogations without raising suspicion. When questioned individually, the family sticks to their individual stories and the police are unable to find a crack in their alibis. Vijay produces bus tickets, movie tickets, lodging and restaurant bills as proof for the familys visit to Panaji. Meera questions the owners of the establishments they have been to and their statements prove Vijays alibi.

Meera realizes that on the day of the incident, Vijay had taken the tickets and the bill, made acquaintance with the owners and had gone for the trip with his family the next day, thus proving his alibi and making the owners unwittingly tell the lie.Meera has the Salgaonkar family arrested, and Gaitonde uses brute force to beat the truth out of them though Vijay, Nandini and Anju resist. Meanwhile, Meera finds out about Sam and his video of Anju from Sams friend, Alex. Eventually, Anu gives in and reveals that she has seen a body being buried in the compost pit. After digging the compost pit, the authorities find the carcass of a dog, indicating that Vijay had moved the body.

Vijay reports to the media that Gaitonde physically abused both his daughters and complains against Gaitonde, causing an angry mob to beat up Gaitonde. The Sub-inspector is suspended, Meera resigns from her post, and the entire investigating force of the Pondolem Police Station is transferred out. When Nandini asks Vijay about what he did to the body, he refuses to tell her, saying that she does not need to know that information. Meera and her husband Mahesh (Rajat Kapoor) meet Vijay to ask forgiveness for their rude and violent behavior. But Vijay explains to them that he would go to any lengths to protect his family.

Vijay tells Meera that her son came to Vijays family as an uninvited guest, who was causing chaos in his happy family life and Vijay has sent him to a place from where he cannot return. Vijay, now in remand, signs a register at the newly constructed local police station. The new police inspector threatens Vijay that he shall find the body. As Vijay leaves, a flashback reveals that he has hidden Sams body under the floor of the police inspectors room in the new station.Meena Iyer of The Times of India gave the film four out of five stars, describing it as A suspense drama with a nail-biting finish.

Iyer criticized the casting choices for some of the Salgaonkar family, but praised Devgan and Tabus performances, Ajay, who is the prey here, shines in his role of the protective father . Tabu [is] outstanding as his predator. The Indian Express, however, gave the remake two and a half out of five stars and found fault with the chemistry between Devgan and Shriya Saran, who plays his characters wife. Indian Express described Devgans performance as stilted and Tabus performance as off-and-on, commenting that she comes off as stiff at times. Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times rated the film three and half out of five stars, describing it as Stunning, gripping, edge-of-the-seat, shocking, engrossing.

Vats praised the film for being successful as a suspense thriller. Raja Sen of Rediff gave the film a rating of two and a half out of five stars, noting the pace of the film begins far too snoozily. Sen described Tabus character as Inspector General Nair as a badass superstar, but overall felt the film is clumsily written, with dialogue that sounds wooden. Contrarily, Bollywood Hungama gave the film four out of five stars and didnt notice the same pacing and script problems as Sen. There is no single moment in the film suffers a lag .

As for the taut screenplay (Upendra Sidhye), it keeps on playing with your mind all the time. You know what happened but even then you are taken for a ride and you start believing in it. Martin DSouza of Glamsham gave it four out of five stars and stated Drishyam is a spot-on crime thriller that has some heart-in-your-mouth moments. Its set up in a made-up village called Pondolim in North Goa. Whats satisfying about the entire screenplay is that what Vijay is doing on screen is what you will do for your family.

Nothing less; after all, family is all that we have! Subhash K. Jha of gave it four and half out of five stars and stated Nishikant Kamats Drishyam is an outright winner . It is not just a remarkably resonant remake but also a unique stand-alone experience. Suchitra Bajpai Chaudhary of Gulf News gave it four and half out of five stars and stated There are no loose ends in the plot; every character, every situation is well planned and visualised to perfection. The background score is evocative though a song that served to highlight the trauma of the characters seemed eminently forgettable.

The Free Press Journal (FPJ Bureau) Said, The climax is just awesome and worth watching and waiting for. Performance-wise, Ajay is very good, as is Tabu. Shriya and the daughters have also acted brilliantly and do justice to their characters. The films direction and screenplay is very good, while the music is okay. I would say, the movie is must watch.