Blind Ending Explained: Was Sonam Kapoor Able To Catch Psycho Killer?

A thriller with a psycho killer? Who doesn't get excited about a plot like that?! But no matter what the plot is, poor execution can ruin any good suspenseful story

Sonam Kapoor's latest Blind is a testament to the same. The film turned out to be a victim of poor execution and sluggish writing failing to give us any adrenaline rush. 

Blind story explained:

The story revolves around Gia Singh (Sonam Kapoor Ahuja) a top-in-class cop and orphan living in Glasgow, with a Punjabi name and a crucifix around her neck with the irony of her being an atheist, and oh! she is not yet blind. We all see an accident coming, right? Well, this is not just an accident that took her eyesight but also someone dearest away from her, along with her passionate job. Gia now lives a mundane life of monotonous chores with bottled-up despair, guilt, and a support dog Elsa. Gia tries to live a hyper-independent life to get accustomed to her new life without sight. 

The juxtaposition of Glasgow's melancholic cityscape and Gia's unrepaired emotional despair adds up to the undertone of a dark thriller. While on one fateful night, Gia gets into a car claiming to be a taxi, driven by Purab Kohli. This car ride is soon going to change everything in her life as she senses suspicion with her extraordinaire strong senses when the boot of the car thumps suspecting the driver to be hiding someone. Sonam escapes a could-be crime scene as she engages in a loose fight with the driver leading to a light accident. 

The nameless driver is a serial killer, psychosexual predator, and misogynist with a traumatic past thirsting for torturing women. How do these layers of a character arc unfold in the film? Well they don't, we just get glimpses of scenes that feel forcefully put for Purab Kohli in a villain arc when this character could have been written so well that story could have run around unfolding this character's layers and story.

But this story is about a blind girl so the villain arc can obviously be tossed right? Well, what does the protagonist Gia do? She like every good protagonist with zero grey shade to a character except for the accident she met goes to inform the police about the incident like a good citizen as she suspects it to be connected to much talked about crime in the city where girls are being mysteriously abducted.

Here comes an estranged Indian cop in a foreign land, Prithvi Khanna played by Vinay Pathak adding up life to the character. Gia involves herself as the prime eyewitness in the case along with Nikhil Saraf (Shubham Saraf) who is another young eyewitness. Prithvi, Gia, and Nikhil are now in a cat-rat chase with the serial killer who is behind their lives and erasing shreds of evidence of his dark secrets that hide behind a soft polite face of a decent doctor. 

Now you will expect the film to pace up right? Well, another bummer is here for you, it doesn't! There are some elements that will add to the gruesomeness of Purab's dark character, but the poor screenplay failed to fill up with the creeps of it, as the scenes seem to be jumping from one to another quite fast. 

Blind review

The debutant director and writer of the film Shome Mukherjee seems to have mistaken this film to be a portrait of a broken woman more than it to be a cut-and-chase run between the two equally strong characters. The story seems to end by giving closure to Gia's character, giving her what she lost but forgetting to unwrap the story of the villain that sparked this story, except for a few scenes. 

The fighting sequences are quite realistic and of course, we don't wish for a Bollywood masala in a serious theme, but a little out-of-robotic standstill fight with evoking music could have helped a little to lift up the low-lying energy of the film with already slow pace.

The character of Gia as a protagonist is a victim of half-baked writing as her only character trait is overplayed with guilt that after a certain point dominated the screen so much we all could feel it along with her.

But did Kapoor fail to impress me with her acting? Well, she indeed overplayed herself with her adapting body language of a blind woman and expressions of a bottled-up hyper-independent woman wallowing in unhealed grief of guilt and coping with flashbacks.  

While Lillete Dubey has a small role as a sweet lady Aunty Marie, a mother figure that melts everyone even on the other side of the screen with her affection. Danish Rizvi has a special appearance as Adrain Perreira and has impressed us all. Even Shubham Saraf excelled in playing a role of a lost, grumpy youngster who played with his character well by not being too annoying depicting the smart yet troubled with emotional and hormonal hassles. 

You can pass this one and instead watch the Tamil remake Netrikann. 

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