That being said, “Grandmaster” has a few things going for it. Add to all that a number of unnecessary long, actual music video sequences, with the one of Roma Asrani who plays Beena obviously serving promotional purposes, and you end up with a film that does not justify its 130 minutes in any way. Even the chess elements seems completely out of place. This misplaced hyperbole also extends to the overall writing, with the villains emerging as too weak for the impact they have in the story, the solving of the mysteries is illogical to say the least, and the twists completely unjustified. Particularly the last one, which features a tiger man as the ultimate villain, and the way Chandra saves the day, cannot even be described as ludicrous. In general, the action scenes are hyperbolic to say the least, and not in a comic-book like fashion, that would make them entertaining, but using loud music and intense editing to hide how bad the choreographies are instead. That fact that Mohanlal, a man in his 50s who is not exactly fit, is portrayed as a martial arts master, emerges as funny in the beginning, but eventually becomes ridiculous, particularly due the number of times the concept is presented on screen. Somewhere by the end of the first case, however, is where the problems of the movie begin.
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The way he handles the first case, his interactions with his daughter and his efforts to get his wife back, while also trying to deal with a serial killer who targets him directly, create an intricate story that actually carries the movie for a large part of its duration. The film starts in interesting fashion, introducing Chandra, as his friends call him, through his interactions with a journalist, highlighting his coolness and overall imposing persona in the best manner. Soon, Chandrasekhar finds himself in a game more dangerous than he anticipated, both for him and his family. Around the same time, Chandrasekhar’s daughter is preparing for a play under the lead of famous actor Mark Roshan. These murders follow a mysterious alphabetical pattern, and each victim also has a cross slit on their forehead. Chandrasekhar is forced to investigate a string of murders: coffee shop owner Alice, famous singer Beena Thomson and leading businesswoman Chandrika Narayanan. It turns out that the three girls had been mocking Jerome, which had led to his actions of kidnapping them in the first place.Ĭhandrasekhar gets a congratulatory note from an anonymous man calling himself “Z” who challenges Chandrasekhar to figure out how he is going to bump off one target after the other. Chandrasekhar arrests Jerome, a psychologically deviant man and rescues three girls he had kidnapped, but his ex-wife Deepthi who is a lawyer, manages to get Jerome sent to treatment in a psychiatric facility, rather than prison. IG (Inspector General) Chandrasekhar, a senior IPS officer who is also obsessed with chess, is the head of the newly created Metro Crime Stopper Cell in Kochi.
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The first ever Malayalam film to be released on Netflix and the first to be released with English subtitles outside Kerala, “Grandmaster” is based on the book The A.B.C Murders by Agatha Christie, which was already adapted by Unnikrishnan for the script of a TV series named “Black and White”.
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