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Forensic Review : A twisted whodunnit thriller that keeps you on the edge

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Ram Thakur 876 days ago

Convincing narrative that strengthens our faith in the science of forensics. Well crafted movie.

Dinesh Sharma 877 days ago

Very good thriller... Killer not known until end... Little gory though for soft hearted

Mahendra Vir Saxena 879 days ago

Beautiful story backed by top notch performances and background music  makes the film a sure watch

Shovon Bhattacharjee Dip 889 days ago

The storyline of this movie is just amazing, and the acting is also good. However, the story could be more batter. They did very good work in acting. Overall, I really enjoyed it a lot.

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Forensic review: Vikrant Massey's brilliant portrayal of jaunty forensic scientist is the highlight of this crime caper

Vikrant Massey’s impeccable and gripping performance makes Forensic a worth watch.

Director Vishal Furia ’s Forensic (now available on Zee5) is a Hindi remake of the 2020 Malayalam film of the same name, starring Tovino Thomas and Mamta Mohandas . The Hindi version, based on a script by writers Adhir Bhatt, Ajit Jagtap and Vishal Kapoor, is a fast-paced thriller about a serial killer who targets little girls.

The town of Mussoorie is rocked when young girls start going missing on their birthdays and are later found murdered. Radhika Apte plays Megha Sharma, a sub-inspector who is made the lead investigator on the case when a dead girl’s body is found in a garbage dump. Also called in to assist is forensic scientist Johnny Khanna, played by Vikrant Massey . Megha and Johnny must set aside their history – they were previously romantically involved – to solve these crimes.

Megha is also guardian to her niece Aanya, who visits a child psychiatrist for therapy related to a family tragedy that also keeps her away from her father Abhay ( Rohit Bose Roy ), who happens to be Johnny’s brother. The family doesn’t seem too involved in Aanya’s mental health else they might have noticed her doctor’s ( Prachi Desai ) methods as being not wholly valuable.

Megha follows a few leads, makes some arrests, but the murders continue. Her unhealed wounds make her resistant to Johnny’s scientific findings and clues about the killer. Johnny is meticulous, and there is enough focus on the methodology and technology used to assist in criminal investigations.

The first half of the film is crisp with three murders in under 10 minutes, albeit some years apart. There is quick character development and establishing of plot, and the hill town provides the right atmosphere for a murder mystery. As sincere as Megha is, her colleagues are portrayed as ambitious and competitive or buffoons.

It’s up to Johnny and Megha to find the killer before another victim falls prey. As the team comes closer to figuring out whodunit, there is a bizarre twist, which knocks the film off track.

When the crime is finally solved, it’s fun to see individuals who have serious jobs not taking life seriously all the time. What keeps it from entirely derailing is Massey’s portrayal of a jaunty forensic scientist who enjoys his work. Massey is terrific as the skilled, confident and sensitive Johnny. The pairing with Apte, who walks the line between anguish and duty, works well. The supporting cast includes Ved Prakash Mathur and Vindhu Singh Randhawa as Megha’s colleagues.

In spite of the unpersuasive plot, Forensic is involving and worth a watch for world-building and to see Massey’s novel interpretation of his character.

Forensic is streaming on Zee5

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'Forensic' film review: Need no magnifying glass to spot its slips

The devil lies in the details. Storytelling does too. Finding the culprit in a whodunnit is like peeling an onion. If not watery, eyes must gape wide with revelation. It is a magic trick. The viewer is engrossed with walking a cold trail overlooking the shorter route in front. That’s where 'Forensic'’s problem begins. While trying to overtake the audience at every turn, it doesn’t realise its tumbling downhill.

Welcome to misty Mussoorie, where finding a little girl’s body is just another downpour away. Here’s Johnny Khanna (played over-enthusiastically by Vikrant Massey), a forensic expert who likes to moonwalk into a crime scene and sing nursery rhymes (Johnny, Johnny...) to both corpses and the living alike till they die of cringe. “But he’s the best,” says a cop as a prelude to the character’s introduction.

Johnny is a wannabe Karamchand who might be better off as Inspector Jacques Clouseau from The Pink Panther. He is reporting to Radhika’s Megha Sharma, the case officer with whom he has a past. The case? Young girls are getting murdered on their birthdays in small-town Mussoorie. The past? They separated. Johnny and Megha also share a niece (his brother married her sister) and I did feel like drawing a family tree.

There is another thing of catching the flavour of the place where the crime occurs. In Bong Joon-Ho’s 'Memories of Murder' (2003), South Korea comes alive in its rice paddy fields. “This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading,” ruminates Rust Cohle in HBO’s 'True Detective' (2014). Even the Malayalam original 'Forensic' (2020), starring Tovino Thomas and Mamta Mohandas, feels at home in its green landscape. The Hindi version, however, is ‘miss-placed’. It wants to ride the bandwagon of a scenic mountain thriller but that’s about it. What do we know about Mussoorie? “This is a small town,” says a police officer during an office banter. “Even if you buy an underwear here, the neighbour will get to know its colour.” That’s true for all small towns, hope not.

In the beginning, Forensic poses a lot of doors to open, but it merely knocks on them and nothing rings a bell. In a scene, Johnny deduces that the killer is not over four to five feet in height. Regular viewers of crime thrillers are always expecting the worst from humanity. The obvious conclusion is that the murderer is a child. “Can it be a dwarf?” asks a cop and I expected flabbergasted looks. What I got was CCTV footage showing a dwarf sweeper near the crime scene and a wild goose chase in a colony of dwarfs. All this for petty comic relief.

Relationships between characters are unravelled conveniently through flashbacks. The Malayalam original aces here. Its characters are defined through traits and flashbacks are sparse. The Hindi version takes the pulp and leaves the juice behind. In a particular sequence in the original, an eye-witness, while he was clandestinely removing a flag of ‘comrades’, spots the accused. A bit of detailing like this and the scene elevates with political context. In the Hindi 'Forensic', the eye-witness is a ragpicker.

Towards the end, 'Forensic' starts remembering clichés it missed. Johnny and Megha get suspended. The evidence board is set, the coloured threads are out, and the victim polaroids are pinned. A post-it note even reads “Who is the killer?” By the time the climax comes I thought, does it even matter?

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Review: Radhika Apte, Vikrant Massey-starrer ‘Forensic’ Is a Problematic Remake

'forensic' (2022) is the remake of the malayalam thriller of the same name starring tovino thomas & mamta mohandas..

If, at the end of it, a movie leaves you with your head in your palm, thinking "Not this again," there's not much scope for redemption.

Forensic, starring Radhika Apte and Vikrant Massey, is a psychological thriller about a cop (sub-inspector Megha Sharma played by Apte) and a forensic officer (Massey as Johnny Khanna) come together to find a serial killer.

The thriller's first half is interesting and shows a lot of potential. Even if it seems implausible and dull in places, the initial premise is built well enough to keep an audience watching.

That being said, the film's decision to use some interesting suspects are red herrings and instead bank on a transphobic "plot twist" left me disappointed but not surprised.

Forensic (2022) is the Hindi remake of the Malayalam original of the same name starring Tovino Thomas and Mamta Mohandas. The Malayalam original, while not being experimental in the genre, is a far more sensitive and braver film than the remake.

When Silence of the Lambs released in 1991 and even entered the glitzy Oscars race, there was public outcry about the film's disservice to the LGBTQ+ community and especially trans people.

Even so, the Jonathan Damme film was self-aware but Forensic seems to be stuck in a rut between trying to draw its audience in and also trying to be "smarter" than them. That was 1991, this is 2022.

Trans characters have often been used in pop culture as a "gotcha" moment as if the existence of any character outside the cisgender binary is so implausible.

The character is painted as an evil, monstrous entity. And their gender identity is treated as a "disguise" and the character is then casually misgendered and deadnamed as if the trans identity existed only as a 'plot twist' (the plot also confirms that the character has opted for a sex reassignment surgery).

The Malayalam original was very well received by audiences (the trans character is a new addition in the remake btw) and was all-in-all entertaining.

The Hindi remake can boast of good performances by its leads Apte and Massey, even though the latter's character treads the thin line between whimsical and nonsensical.

Judging by the source material, the remake, written by Adhir Bhat, Ajit Jagtap, and Vishal Kapoor seems to be playing it safer and tamer.

Forensic (2022) knows how to weave a story but it often outsmarts itself in the effort to perhaps create a story the audience won’t see coming. Even without the problems mentioned above, the film struggles to find its footing within the world it has created.

Thrillers can be strange, they can be unpredictable, they can be simple or complicated, they can even take the risk of being unbelievable but if they aren’t gripping, they will not work. I wish the film had ended half an hour before it did; would've been a much better, concise film than it is now.

Forensic is streaming on Zee5.

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Forensic Review: The Cinematic Equivalent Of Murder Most Foul

Forensic review: radhika apte and vikrant massey have a string of successes in the web series space. but saddled with a floundering script, they struggle to prevent the sloppy whodunnit from sliding into inanity..

Cast: Radhika Apte, Vikrant Massey, Prachi Desai

Director: Vishal Furia

Rating: 1 and half stars (out of 5)

A remake of the 2020 Malayalam thriller of the same title, Zee5's Forensic retains little else from the original film. It subjects the plot to a series of unwarranted changes and kills any hopes of a meaningful reworking of a film that wasn't exactly crying out for one.

Even if one were to accept that the Tovino Thomas-Mamtha Mohandas starrer was by no means an unblemished police procedural, there is no getting away from the feeling that all that the Hindi-language rehash by director Vishal Furia does is maul a reasonably good concept beyond recognition. There isn't a shred in this Forensic that could put the earlier Forensic in the shade.

The serial killings and the police and media response to the crimes are transported from Thiruvananthapuram to Mussoorie, which, of course, serves the purpose of giving the film a fresh look. It sadly does not percolate beneath the surface. The film reeks of staleness. The hackneyed thriller tropes and a generic action sequence in the climax (no patch on the careening and overturning car scene in the 2020 film) only make matters worse. A girl is kidnapped from a church. Hours later, she is found dead in a dump yard. A police sub-inspector and a forensic expert are pressed into service to identify and nab the perpetrator. Over the next few days, more schoolgirls, including the local MLA's daughter. are kidnapped and murdered on their birthdays.

Word about a psychopath on the loose spreads. Schools are shut in panic. And the cops are under immense pressure to find the serial killer before he or she can strike again. What ensues is supposed to be a dizzy race against time. But Forensic fails to rustle up a single scene that generates palpable tension or genuine suspense.

Forensic stars Radhika Apte as SI Megha Sharma and Vikrant Massey as forensic specialist Johnny Khanna. The two actors are stars have a string of successes repute in the web series space and beyond. But saddled with a floundering script, the duo struggles to prevent the sloppy whodunnit from sliding into inanity.

In the Malayalam film, the two principal characters are related to each other by marriage – the policewoman is the ex-wife of the forensic examiner's elder brother. Here, the pair is turned into ex-lovers who broke up presumably because of irreconcilable differences on which the film does not throw light. The sparks between former lovers who are now partners in a crime investigation could have led to interesting situation, but Forensic does not give that possibility a proper shot. Although they do inch close to rekindling their affair, the development does not trigger any major waves.

There is a boy who kills his abusive father and flees. And there are girls who are found dead with multiple stab wounds. The sub-inspector is handed the case because the SHO of the police station feels that the inspector under him – the big-talking Ved Prakash Mathur (Subrat Dutta) – isn't sensitive enough to handle the case.

Bad blood between the Inspector and the SI threatens to throw the spanner in the works as the investigation progresses and the cops are withing striking distance of the suspect. It is quite another matter that nobody in the police station, and this includes the cocky Johnny Khanna, is in a particularly sombre mood as the body count rises and the clues leads nowhere.

In the early scenes, Johnny's demeanour is particularly is at variance with the gravity of the situation. The man is inexplicably cheerful and pert – unlike in the Malayalam original, he does need an assistant – as he goes about the job of collecting evidence from the crime scenes and examining them under a microscope.

In one scene, Megha asks Johnny: “Tumhe mazaaq lag raha hai?” The question isn't without reason. The forensic man's strangely flippant manner is reined in a bit as things turn serious. That about sums up the overall approach of this completely gratuitous remake.

Taking a leaf out of the book of the original film, in which the investigating officer's boss gives her a file of another cold case to peruse while she is on a two-month break, Forensic ends on a note that indicates that a Part Two of the remake might also be on the way. That would be, to say the least, two much! Scriptwriters Adhir Bhat, Ajit Jagtap and Vishal Kapoor make grotesque changes to the plot and throw in an old man with dementia, an instance of sex reassignment and police department politics that pits SI Megha Sharma against her immediate superior and queers the pitch for her.

Johnny's elder brother Abhay (Ronit Roy) is Megha's brother-in-law. She holds responsible for the death of her sister and a niece. Abhay's surviving daughter, a mentally disturbed schoolgirl who needs constant psychological monitoring, is a key player in the story. So is her therapist Ranjana (Prachi Shah) – a character who did not exist in the original story, certainly not in the avatar she dons here, is also accorded considerable play.

Megha cannot stand Abhay and tries everything in her power to keep her niece Anya away from the man. Johnny feels for his elder brother and strives to convince Megha to have the restraining order against Abhay lifted.

The family drama isn't what Forensic is about. It is about the shufting dynamics between two law enforcement officials looking for the “birthday serial killer”, who, Johnny infers after conclusive forensic tests, is a child aged 10 to 12 years. Megha is sceptical about that theory and chooses to chase a dwarf instead – another plot twist that did not exist in the Malayalam film.

Like in Akhil Paul and Anas Khan's Forensic , the name of the real-life Amarjeet Sada of Bihar's Begusarai crops up. The forensic expert informs the cops that the eight-year-old boy who killed three, including his own baby sister, is the youngest serial killer ever.

The focus here is not squarely on mental illness as an essential cause of criminal conduct. The film tries without success to take the story beyond just twisted motives and seek out mind-bending terrain. Too clever by half, Forensic is a cinematic equivalent of a murder, actually several murders, most foul.

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Movie Review Forensic in Hindi: आज ओटीटी पर हर बड़ा स‍ितारा अपनी उपस्‍थ‍ित‍ि दर्ज कराने कोशिश में लगा है. लेकिन राध‍िका आप्‍टे (Radhika Apte) उन एक्‍ट्रेसेस में से एक हैं, ज‍िन्‍होंने ओटीटी के इस सैलाब से पहले ही इस समुंदर में कई कमाल की नौकाएं दौड़ाई हैं. ‘फॉब‍िया’, ‘सेक्रेड गेम्‍स’, ‘रात अकेली’ समेत कई वेब सीरीज और ओटीटी कंटेंट का ह‍िस्‍सा रहीं राध‍िका अब एक बार फिर ‘फॉरेंस‍िक’ (Forensic Movie) नाम की फिल्‍म में सामने आई हैं. व‍िक्रांत मैसी (Vikrant Massey) के साथ राध‍िका की जोड़ी वाली ये फिल्‍म ZEE5 पर र‍िलीज हुई है और एक सस्‍पेंस क्राइम थ्र‍िलर है. जान‍िए कैसी है ये फिल्‍म.

देख‍िए कहानी की बात करें तो क‍िसी भी सस्‍पेंस थ्र‍िलर की सबसे पहली शर्त होती है कि उसकी कहानी के राज और ट्व‍िस्‍ट ऐंड टर्न आपको पहले से न पता हों. इसल‍िए ब‍िना कोई स्‍पॉइलर के बस यही समझ लीजिए कि मसूरी शहर है, जहां जन्‍मदिन के द‍िन ही कई छोटी बच्‍च‍ियों के कत्‍ल हो रहे हैं, वो भी बहुत ही बेरहमी से. इसी किलर की तलाश में हैं सब इंस्‍पेक्‍टर मेघा शर्मा (राध‍िका आप्‍टे) और उनकी मदद के लिए देहरादून से बुलाए गए हैं, फॉरेंस‍िक के जबरदस्‍त एक्‍सपर्ट जॉनी खन्ना (व‍िक्रांत मैसी)… हां इन दोनों का एक पास्‍ट भी है, जो आपको ब‍िना देरी के फिल्‍म में ही पता चल जाएगा. लेकिन अब आखिर ये गुत्‍थी क्‍या है, कैसे मोड़ लेती है, वो देखने के लिए आपको ये फिल्‍म देखनी होगी.

‘फॉरेंस‍िक’ मलयालम भाषा की फ‍िल्‍म का रीमेक सबसे पहले तो साफ कर दूं कि ‘फॉरेंस‍िक’ मलयालम भाषा की इसी नाम की फिल्‍म का ह‍िंदी रीमेक है. मलयालम फॉरेंस‍िक तो ह‍िट साबित हुई थी लेकिन देखना इस रीमेक में थोड़ी परेशान‍ियां हैं. सबसे पहले कुछ अच्‍छी बात करें तो ओटीटी पर इससे पहले भी कई सस्‍पेंस थ्र‍िलर सामने आई हैं लेकिन इस फिल्‍म की अलग बात है कि यहां सबकुछ स‍िर्फ एक सुपरकॉप या साइको व‍िलेन के बीच नहीं हो रहा है. बल्कि यहां चीजें फॉरेंस‍िक एक्‍सपर्ट की नजर से देखी जा रही हैं और यही बारीकियां देखने में आपको बहुत मजा आएगा. स‍िर्फ एक पुल‍िस वाला अकेले सब सॉल्‍व नहीं करेगा, बल्कि लॉज‍िकल तरीके से चीजें द‍िखाई गई हैं.

फर्स्‍ट हाफ बढ़‍िया लेकिन… फिल्‍म का फर्स्‍ट हाफ काफी मजेदार है लेकिन द‍िक्‍कत शुरू होती है सैकंड हाफ से, जहां चीजें बस न‍िपटाने की जल्‍दी है. साथ ही क्‍लाइमैक्‍स आपको 2018 की तम‍िल की सुपरहिट फिल्‍म ‘रतसासन’ की याद भी द‍िला सकता है. यहां तक की इन दोनों फिल्‍मों में क्राइम का श‍िकार होने वाली भी स्‍कूल की लड़कियां हैं.

व‍िक्रांंत मैसी हैं र‍िफ्रेश‍िंंग फॉरेंस‍िक में सबसे र‍िफ्रेश‍िंग हैं व‍िक्रांत मैसी जो क‍िसी आम फॉरेंस‍िक एक्‍सपर्ट की तरह स‍िर्फ सीरियस नहीं हैं. बल्कि अपने काम को पूरे द‍िल से करते हैं. द‍िक्‍कत शुरू होती है, जब कहानी की आखिरी ह‍िस्‍सा आपको एक्‍सपेक्‍टेड लगने लगता है. साथ ही एक कार चेज‍िंग सीक्‍वेंस काफी अजीब भी लगा ज‍िसने इस लॉज‍िकल फिल्‍म को पूरी तरह ‘फिल्‍मी मसाला’ वाला फील दे द‍िया.

व‍िक्रांत मैसी फॉरेंस‍िक में जबरदस्‍त रहे हैं.

अगर आप घर बैठे हैं और आपको एक सस्‍पेंस थ्र‍िलर देखने का मन है तो व‍िक्रांत मैसी के मजेदार अंदाज और क्राइम के पीछे फॉरेंस‍िक लॉज‍िक को समझने के लिए आप ये फिल्‍म एक बार जरूर देख सकते हैं. मेरी तरफ से इस फिल्‍म को 2.5 स्‍टार.

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Tags: Radhika Apte , Vikrant Massey

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Forensic Is A Masterclass In How Not To Remake A Thriller

Director : Vishal Furia Writers : Adhir Bhatt, Ajit Jagtap, Vishal Kapoor Cast : Vikrant Massey, Radhika Apte, Prachi Desai, Rohit Roy, Anant Mahadevan Cinematographer : Anshul Chobey Editor : Abhijeet Deshpande Streaming on : ZEE5

I admire films that go beyond the brief in terms of source material. They bring to mind a famous Roger Ebert quote: Those who think a script must be 'faithful' seem to treat adaptation like marriage; adaptation can also mean improvement. But as it turns out, there is also such a thing as too much adaptation. So much that the original is forgotten and the new one becomes its own deformed four-headed beast. There are scene-to-scene remakes, there are cultural translations – and then there is Forensic . Vishal Furia's psychological thriller is a loose, tacky and reckless adaptation of the Malayalam-language Tovino Thomas-starring 2020 hit . The Hindi-language Forensic is the sort of whodunnit that's so busy trying to outwit the audience, the original film and the audience who watched the original film that it eventually outwits itself – twice over. 

The result is a climax so singularly absurd that I had to rub my eyes and retreat to bed for a few minutes. I'm all for campy B-movie revelations, but there is a limit to so-bad-it's-good storytelling. In its pursuit of a distinct identity, Forensic descends into farcical Scooby-Doo Where Are You! territory – CID and F.I.R. look authentic in comparison – without even intending to. I'm still in bed as I write this review.

Forensic revolves around a star forensic expert named Johnny Khanna ( Vikrant Massey ), who is summoned to misty Mussorrie to team up with his ex-girlfriend cop Megha Sharma ( Radhika Apte ), when a spate of murders rocks the mountain town. A shadowy serial killer is on the loose, preying only on little girls celebrating their birthdays. Clearly, this psychopath is no fan of cake. The exes have their own troubled history: Megha's sister was married to Johnny's brother, and a tragedy meant that Megha has sole custody of her young niece, Anya. The cast is full of suspects who're one cheesy backstory away from a '90s-Bollywood motive: Johnny's grieving brother Abhay (Rohit Roy), Johnny himself (he is introduced dancing into a crime site and mimicking the "Johny Johny" nursery rhyme), a pretty child psychologist (Prachi Desai), the psychologist's cancer-stricken father figure (Anant Mahadevan), Megha herself (she's always annoyed), a cocky rival cop, and a wild 11-year-old juvenile convict who speaks in grunts. I was waiting for a writer to be introduced as an introvert from a broken family who hates (birthday) parties, but that writer never came. 

The screenplay spends the first hour nudging us in the direction of the killer being a child. Yet, the narrative unnecessarily stretches the smokescreen; we even see Megha chasing and arresting a dwarf, who works as a janitor at one of the murder sites. The film has so many red herrings that its very existence becomes a red herring. It begins with a flashback of the killer as a child, drowning a cat and making twisty faces. This is immediately followed by an intro shot of eccentric forensic superstar Johnny Khanna – Massey is good at many things, including hamming – presumably to misdirect the viewer. He speaks in a singsong voice, does a Sherlock at crime scenes and generally just tries very hard to look like a guy who goes around mauling cakes. 

Like any self-respecting thriller that cracks the case at the interval mark, Forensic spends the next hour debunking its own design and revealing the actual killer. There is logic in neither, but the real problem lies in the treatment and execution. I should have sensed something was wrong when one of the opening shots shows a child being caned by a plank of wood – and the kid doesn't flinch. The body does not move forward or backward; the adult beating up the kid is visibly hitting the air. These are small technical details that sink a viewer's impression of a film before it begins. 

Then there are basic rhythm problems. Megha nabs a suspect in an intense chase; the next scene shows her calmly sitting with her niece's psychologist and speaking of the little girl's family trauma; the next scene shows her back at the police station, aggressively grilling the suspect. It doesn't help that Radhika Apte delivers a two-note performance – Megha is either flaring her nostrils or screaming at people, sometimes both at once. There is one fleeting shot that demonstrates what the actress is capable of: Johnny is showing her around a crime site, she's holding his notepad, and when he asks for it, she momentarily assumes he's asking for her hand. The way she hesitates reveals the Radhika Apte who, not too long ago, was a bondafide OTT all-star. 

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So much of the film flaunts a '90s TV aesthetic, too, where the action-reaction cycle is instant. For instance, when news channels declare that there is a child killer on the loose, we immediately see a shot of parents herding their children out of a crowded park – did they all find out together? Was there a loudspeaker? Is there no smarter way to depict fear and paranoia in a small town? It's still better than the shot of a kid being turned away from the locked school gates by a security guard. In a car chase, speed is depicted by messing with the frame rates rather than actual choreography. At one point in the second half, a dance track – that sounds eerily like a rejected 'item song' – scores a sad montage of the couple being suspended from the case and the cops looking for a new suspect. The dissonance would have been startling in a better film, but in Forensic , everything goes. Including my sanity.

Which reminds me, I just had a flashback about the twist at the end again. Having been an M. Night Shyamalan fan through thick and thin, I've seen my fair share of terrible twists over the years. But the one in Forensic is so mind-bendingly surreal that even a drama teacher in primary school might have punished a student for daring to conceive it. I know I sound like I'm hyping it up now, and one might just watch it out of perverse curiosity. (Pro tip: Do not look away in disbelief). It really does…take the cake. And if there's one thing that Forensic teaches us, it's that cake is injurious to health.

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Forensic Movie Review: FORENSIC has its share of minuses and yet, it manages to work because of the plot and the shocking climax.

Vikrant massey & radhika apte’s forensic has its share of minuses and yet, it manages to work because of the plot and the shocking climax., forensic review {3.0/5} & review rating.

FORENSIC is the story of mysterious serial killings in a sleepy hill station. Megha Sharma ( Radhika Apte ) is a sub-inspector in Mussoorie. She resides with her mother and Aanya (Harbandana Kaur). Aanya is the daughter of Megha's deceased sister Divya (Zeba Sherrif). She was married to Abhay Khanna (Rohit Bose Roy) and was the mother to Aanya as well as her twin sister, Aadya. 5 years ago, Aadya died in a freak accident in Rishikesh while the whole family had come to visit a fair. Divya couldn't handle the trauma and committed suicide. Megha blamed Abhay for these deaths. She forcibly took Aanya with her. This development added to Abhay's stress and he became depressed. Megha also broke up with Johnny Khanna ( Vikrant Massey ), Abhay's brother, after this incident. In the present day, a young girl, Jennifer, goes missing on her birthday from her school. Her dead body is found the next day. Megha is given the charge of handling it over her rival, Ved Prakash Mathur (Subrat Dutta), as the SHO believes that she can sensitively handle the case. The SHO also informs her that Johnny Khanna will be doing the forensic investigations. Megha is not happy with her developments but agrees with the decision, nevertheless. Johnny goes all out in collecting vital information from the crime scene, Jennifer's clothes, etc. While the investigation is underway, Aditi (Shraddha Bhatt), another girl, goes missing, that too, on her birthday. And yet again, she is found dead. Based on the foot marks found and other data, Johnny concludes that the killer is a 10 or 12-year-old child. His sketch is made thanks to an eyewitness and it's spread everywhere in Mussoorie. The town goes into a lockdown-like situation, the schools shut down and parents prohibit their kids from going out, fearing that the suspected killer-child will attack their ward. One day, Aanya goes missing and Megha finds her with the suspected killer-child, Rohan (Nikhil Chawla). Rohan is arrested and the whole Mussoorie heaves a sigh of relief. Johnny, however, has doubts about whether Rohan is the killer. Meanwhile, another girl goes missing on her birthday. This time, CCTV footage is leaked which shows that the child taking out the missing girl is none other than Aanya! What happens next forms the rest of the film.

FORENSIC is an adaptation of the 2020 Malayalam film of the same name. Mansi Bagla's story is filled with lots of twists and turns and makes for a nice whodunit. Vishal Kapoor and Ajit Jagtap's screenplay is effective. The characters are intriguing and the goings-on are quite captivating. However, a few developments are silly and could have been better written. Adhir Bhatt's dialogues are sharp. The ‘Johnny Johnny, Yes Papa?’ bit, however, doesn’t seem apt in most scenes.

Vishal Furia's direction is neat. He doesn’t make the film complicated and keeps the narrative extremely simple, and yet engaging. The biggest strength of the film is that it’s not a scene-by-scene remake of the original version. The makers have taken only the germ of the idea and a few aspects and have then made several changes. In fact, the identity of the killer is a shocker and even those who have seen the Malayalam film will be left astonished. On the flipside, certain scenes are unconvincing, and even bewildering. Viewers will fail to understand why Aanya was not investigated properly when she was found with Rohan. Secondly, the way which Abhay was meeting Aanya for all these years without any suspicion and even takes her away after she is identified as the suspect is difficult to digest. Lastly, while the suspense comes as a bolt from the blue, a few developments revolving around it would be seen as unintentionally funny. But since it's highly unpredictable, viewers would not mind much.

Vikrant Massey gives a confident performance. He’s quite charming and suits the part. However, in some places, he tries to be too funny and act like Govinda and it backfires to an extent. Radhika Apte, as expected, gives a fine performance. This role needed an actor of her stature and she nails it. Prachi Desai (Dr Ranjana) is too good. She has a crucial part in the film and does very well. FORENSIC proves why she deserves to be seen more. Vindu Dara Singh (Vinod Rawat) is adorable. Harbandana Kaur also has an important role and acts aptly. The same goes for Nikhil Chawla. Rohit Bose Roy and Subrat Dutta lend able support. Narendra Gupta (Dr Solanki) gets limited scope but it’s good to see him as a forensic doctor as it reminds viewers of his similar act in the much-loved TV series, ‘CID’. Ananth Narayan Mahadevan (Dr Ramesh Gupta) leaves a mark in a small role. Rohit Singh (Charlie Pinto, the dwarf) is fair. Zeba Sherrif and others do well.

FORENSIC should have been a song-less film as the music is forced into the narrative. This especially applies to  'Alvida'. 'Belagaam'  is okay and one doesn’t mind as its signature tune is catchy. Adrija Gupta's background score is thrilling, as per the requirement of the script.

Anshul Chobey's cinematography is appropriate. The locales of Mussoorie are very well shot. That the film is shot in the monsoons gives a nice touch to the film. Sheetal Duggal's production design is rich. Priyanka Bakul Bhatt's costumes are realistic and non-glamorous. Ajay Thakur Pathania's action is devoid of any gore. Abhijeet Deshpande's editing is sharp.

On the whole, FORENSIC has its share of minuses and yet, it manages to work because of the plot and the shocking climax.

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