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Blurr movie review: Taapsee Pannu's tryst with dark and edgy thrillers continues

Blurr movie review: taapsee pannu's first production venture is an exciting and fast-paced thriller-mystery, a genre she looks most comfortable in..

Thrillers seems to have carved their own niche in the Hindi film industry lately, and Taapsee Pannu 's reign in the genre continues undisputed. Her latest OTT release, Blurr, which also happens to be her first as a producer, is a psychological thriller that is cleverly written, but most importantly, brilliantly shot. With terrific camera work, thrilling background score laced with jump-scares, Blurr — official Hindi remake of Spanish film Julia's Eyes — somewhat manages to prove an exciting whodunnit. (Also read: Dobaaraa movie review: An engaging and complex brain teaser )

Set in the hills of Uttarakhand, the plot follows Gayatri (Taapsee Pannu), who is trying to find the person who killed her twin sister Gautami (also Taapsee), and the reason behind what she believes is a murder. While cops are convinced Gautami died by suicide after suffering from depression due to her visual impairment (the twins suffer from degenerative sight condition), Gayatri isn't ready to let them close this case. Her husband Neil (Gulshan Devaiah) does accompany her in the journey, but his evident reluctance makes him an obvious suspect.

As a producer, Taapsee definitely showed courage backing a project like this, which has its own niche audiences and sometimes doesn't make for a family watch. And as an actor portraying twins, she blends multiple emotions and balances them off extremely well. Though in parts where she starts to lose her eyesight, I found those scenes a bit patchy and imperfect, but Taapsee manages to let you look past that. For most part of the film, I felt like I was watching an extension of Taapsee from Badla, Game Over, Haseen Dillruba, Loop Lapeta and Dobaara. Clearly, she has found her own footing in this genre.

Being the fine actor that Gulshan is, he manages to complement Taapsee well in the limited part he has. There's one scene where he gets to shine while scaring you, but I would have expected a lot more from his character. In a crucial cameo, Kruttika Desai tries to deliver but her half-baked character doesn't leave a lasting impact. Abhilash Thapliyal, in a key role, is truly a revelation. Showing his never-seen-before side onscreen, he completely aces the part, looks convincing and makes the maximum impact.

With psychological thrillers, what I particularly enjoy and like watching is the build-up to the big reveal and also the climax. In Blurr, too, writer-director Ajay Bahl introduces several twists that unfold along with the story, and truths that Gayatri unearths as she is investigating her sister's murder. However, the story has too many loose ends and questions that nobody bothers to answer. For instance, though we are told about the equation the twins shared, it never is clear as to what really conspired between the two to have reached this fate. And while there are many characters that we're introduced to throughout the story with much promise, not all are written well enough to live up to the potential.

Ajay's story is gripping and moves at a fast pace. It goes off track at some places but soon resumes the flow. In parts, I felt, Ajay goes overboard with his characters and how they emote. A bit of a restraint would have not harmed. That being said, Sudhir K. Chaudhary's cinematography gets full marks for creating a near-perfect setting in the hills, and capturing each element in a manner that it stays in sync with the storyline.

Without being too preachy, Blurr very subtly manages to address mental health issues, societal pressure and the fear of rejection that often push a person to extreme acts. Those underlined messages are quite relevant and are well-placed in the script. Overall, Blurr keeps you engaged right from the word go, and dives straight into being a dark, edgy thriller. The film is now streaming on Zee5.

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Blurr (2022) Review & Ending, Explained – Who killed Gautami and why?

Blurr feels that Hindi cinema is still coddled into the idea of a sociopath-haunted thriller. Blurry with its wayward execution that didn’t know whether it wanted to break out of cliches or frantically drown neck-deep into it, the Zee5 remake of Julia’s Eyes does stumble into a spoonfed conclusion, but what was the point really? Another Taapsee Pannu-led thriller unsurprisingly, although not unreasonably, excited me as it did most of you. Halfway (or even earlier) into the movie, however, one can be expected to deduce that it is an experience led by its cinematography and not an actor. 

Pannu certifiably is taken by, if not obsessed with, the works of Oriol Paulo effectively enough for her to work in yet another film by the Spanish screenwriter-director, and that too as the introductory feature for her infant production house Outsiders Films. But even an irrefutably seasoned actress such as her, despite her best efforts, couldn’t save the flailing dynamic of director Ajay Bahl’s tunnel vision. Yes, the irony isn’t lost on me. 

Bahl’s script follows Julia’s Eyes closely and, like it, lays the foundation for the inescapable claustrophobia that builds up with our lead, Gayatri, gradually losing her vision. What already is a suffocating nightmare of being followed by an invisible stalker who she feels has taken her twin sister’s life is heightened by her inability to see. Pannu communicates the airless urgency with every bit of distraught dedication. Too bad the story’s tailored, individualistic elements bear the stereotypical understanding of PTSD and its Freudian phenomenon in the style of any number of short stories you may find in the back of an angsty teenager’s notebook.

  Blurr (2022) Plot Summary and Movie Synopsis

Yanked into the confusion that surrounds her blind sister Gautami’s apparent suicide, Gayatri (Taapsee Pannu) finds more questions than answers in the enigmatic hill station. Her husband Neel ( Gulshan Devaiah ) and the investigating officer try in vain to convince Gayatri that her twin sister’s death wasn’t a murder. But it isn’t just the circumstances of the death that is confusing for Gayatri, she also feels a constant presence of a fleeting existence around her. Her increasingly worsening eyesight pertaining to a progressively deteriorating eye condition only adds to the already existing pile of anxiety and grief. 

A conversation with Gautami’s neighbor and once friend, Mrs. Solanki (Kruttika Desai), drives the frantic girl to Bhowali Wellness Centre. There she lands into a revelatory, albeit insulting, conversation amongst a group of blind women, and she learns that Gautami had a boyfriend. Her eavesdropping also allows her to know that Gautami has taken a romantic vacation with her partner. Knowing that she’s being followed and seeing the outline of her pursuer this time, Gayatri runs after him. After losing him in the maze-y chase, she faints and is brought home by a well-meaning neighbor. 

Bidding goodbye to her sister’s body, Gayatri decides to follow up on who Gautami was seeing and manipulates Neel into going to the same place where her sister had gone. No one at the lodge remembers who Gautami was with on her visit, but the caretaker does mention a person in his acutely cryptic words, which give out nothing useful. She does find a strange key that Gautami had left behind. 

Learning that a local restaurant manager had seen Gautami with bandages on her eyes urges Gayatri to ask the real questions. Neel convinces her that she indeed had gotten an unsuccessful operation, and he only kept it from Gayatri so as not to make her anxious over the fact that she might lose her eyesight too someday. When Neel goes missing on his way to retrieve the CCTV footage that could’ve shed some light on who accompanied Gautami, distraught Gayatri calls the cops. To make matters far more inconvenient for her, the mysterious assailant electrocutes the only lodge worker who remembers seeing him. 

Complete loss of vision comes into Gayatri’s life with another traumatizing event. Neel has taken his own life. In the hospital bed, post an eye operation, Gayatri hears Neel’s “suicide note,” which is an exhaustive confession revealing the secret affair he had with Gautami. In grief’s embrace, Gayatri implores the doctor to hold on to Neel’s corpse so that she can see him one last time after her recovery. Shutting down the doctor’s insistent advice of staying at the hospital for recovery, Gayatri decides to take her chances at being self-reliant with no vision. With the town in a dangerous landslide, Gayatri waits with bandages on her eyes for the arrival of her nurse. 

Uncomfortable at first when she finds out that the hospital has sent a male nurse, Deepak (Abhilash Thapliyal); Gayatri soon makes peace with him and begins exploring the house without vision but with his help. He wasn’t kidding when he said that he would be at her constant beck-and-call. One tap on the speed dial, when Gayatri freaks out at the thought of an intruder, brings Deepak to her place to calm her and be there for her. His constant help and lenient care draw the emotionally and physically vulnerable Gayatri to him. But when Deepak rejects her kiss, she feels a sinking sense of guilt that pushes her down the pit of loneliness yet again. 

On a stormy night, she feels the presence of someone in her house and is compelled to run out. Being taken to the home of Ira by her father, Gautami discovers the mysterious key and is certain that Ira’s father has something to do with Gautami’s death. She is soon rescued by Deepak, who then brings her to his house, where she is again met with Ira. She gives Gautami the key and urges her to find out if it opens a door in Deepak’s house. In Ira’s words, the nurse is the monster who killed Gautami and is drugging Gayatri into having nightmares. 

Blurr Ending Explained

Who killed gautami and why.

Fumbling through the strange house, Gayatri stumbles into a door that is opened by the strange key. She removes the bandages from her eyes, and her pupils slowly focus on the haunting pictures on the wall of the red room. Scared out of her wits after seeing the pictures of Gautami and Neel on the wall, Gayatri runs out, and before she can get away, she slips on the blood that has been dragged back to Ira’s corpse on the wall. Deepak walks back into the room and comes close to Gayatri after removing the knife from Ira’s mouth. Knowing that the only way he perhaps wouldn’t hurt her is if she’s still blind, Gayatri pretends that the operation didn’t work. 

The killer, however, soon figures out that she is faking her blindness and drags her to the box where he’s been hoarding the decomposing body of the real Deepak. He injects Gautami’s eyes with something that will make her go blind again and locks her in the box with Deepak’s corpse. Just as she breaks out of the box, he comes back with wrath and chases her out. 

Gayatri takes shelter in the house of Mrs. Solanki and soon learns that the murderer is her own son. A fine payback for his mother’s help, he kills Mrs. Solanki and goes after Gayatri again. Having her back to the wall, Gayatri has no choice but to listen to him talk about his distorted idea of love and companionship. Wearing the noose on her neck and finally realizing how Gautami died, Gayatri decides not to give in to his insanity. While distracting him with a kiss, she stabs him in his side and locks him in his room. 

After calling the cops, Gayatri turns out the lights in the house to make his mobility as difficult as it is for her with her fast-fading vision. Another cat-and-mouse chase exhausts her and her perpetrator, and before he can overpower her, the cops show up. Knowing there’s no way out, he quite dramatically slits his own throat and ends his life. Soon after another operation reinstitutes her vision, Gautami goes to say goodbye to Neel in the morgue. As she stares into his cloudy white eyes, the doctor lets her know that he had donated his eyes and she has rightfully received those. 

Although the murderer’s psychotic tendencies can hardly be placed on the backs of his troubled relationship with his mother and how he had felt invisible in the world, that is exactly how his monstrous origin story has been laid out over the course of his big reveal. Mrs. Solanki has always placed the blame for her lost career on her son’s sickness, whom she needed to tend to. Even with the unconscious Gayatri on the floor, she wouldn’t shut up about how much she has sacrificed for him and how he has ruined his life. Clearly enabled by the equally sociopathic mother who would hide his crimes, he didn’t get the help he needed. That, combined with the coldness and unacceptance he has felt from everyone around him, made him believe that he’ll only be noticed when someone is at his mercy. Being needed by blind women was mistaken as a disoriented sense of love. 

Blurr Movie Review

Sure, there’s an audience for Blurr. And sure, it could make for a tolerable–and I could go as far as to say decent watch–if you turned off the thinker and let yourself go down the spiral of the suffocating plight, the protagonist went through. The predicament is well established with the fear of an exceedingly lonely disability chasing the lead while her bogeyman runs on the same track of involuntary seclusion but with a sinister motive. Even a shorter run time would’ve brushed off the tiring appendages that weigh down a fairly decent story of terror. I mean, did it really need such a despicably shabby nightmare sequence? 

Taapsee Pannu gives Gayatri her all through every bit of ongoing horror looming over her already distraught existence. It could’ve easily been a melodramatic approach taken by a lesser actress, but Pannu finds the right footing by downplaying the physical expression of fright and allowing the atmospheric tension to do its job. There are moments of stress-induced worsening of her tunnel vision where the actress brilliantly conveys the exact panic you would expect from a person in her position. 

The script does Gulshan Devaiah pretty darn bad an injustice. It doesn’t sit right that an actor like him would be wasted on a character whose purposes are to distract from the obvious stream of the mystery, be an obstacle in the protagonist’s path and be the sacrificial goat for the sake of the happy ending. Stomach-churning dialogues of romance between Neel and Gayatri appear out of nowhere and hover in the center of the advancing tension, only to leave the bitter taste of exceptionally poor writing. Every other character receives equally unfair treatment by the script that was too busy overstuffing itself with ceaseless tropes of setting the antagonist as an enigma. 

Sudhir Chowdhary conjures up a haunting atmosphere where the blues and the greys of the rainy hills evoke a more impending sense of danger than the murderer himself. Every shot within Gautami’s perilous home aids the omnipresent fear. However, the atmospheric danger set profoundly by Chowdhary’s vision could use a better score to reach its full potential. But there really isn’t a point scrutinizing all that could’ve gone differently when a 2022 script still tries to establish mommy issues as a reliable reason for a man to go that berserk. 

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Blurr movie review: Taapsee Pannu thriller is too stretched, too flat

Blurr movie review: the atmospherics are fine, but the characters, including the leading lady's who has maximum screen time, come off sketchy..

‘Blurr’ starts promisingly. Gautami ( Taapsee Pannu ) is roused from a nightmare, convinced that her twin sister Gayatri is in mortal danger. A mad dash towards a house in the hills ends in horror. The sister, who suffered from a degenerative eye disease, is dead. And now the devastated Gautami is convinced that there’s someone after her life too.

The official remake of the Spanish language ‘Julia’s Eyes’, directed by Guillem Morales and produced by Guillermo del Toro, has Taapsee Pannu in a double role. All the elements of a successful horror thriller are piled up swiftly enough: the wooded slopes are deep and dark, the house of the dead sister has a sinister staircase, a male neighbour who lives with a silent younger sister is appropriately shifty, an older woman who lives nearby harbours a secret, and the cop who shows up to check in on Gautami and her husband (Gulshan Devaiah) seems far too sure that nothing is wrong.

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So far, all good. The idea of losing your eyesight, the thing that afflicted Gayatri, and which appears to be Gautami’s lot now, is scary enough. And then to have someone flitting around at the edge of your increasingly blurry vision, is doubly scary. The atmospherics are fine, but the characters, including the leading lady’s who has maximum screen time, come off sketchy. What was Gayatri, whose life and death has such an impact on her twin, like? Same same or different? What does Gautami’s husband do, apart from ferrying her from Point A to Point B? And once an ostensibly helpful character (Thapliyal, effective) starts telegraphing his punches, even the jump scares become predictable.

Much too soon, and this is the trouble with most Bollywood thrillers, the plot gets far too stretched, the run time becomes too long, and the film flattens.

Blurr movie cast: Taapsee Pannu, Gulshan Devaiah, Abhilash Thapliyal, Kruttika Desai Blurr movie director: Ajay Bahl Blurr movie rating: 2 stars

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Blurr Movie Review: Taapsee Pannu's thriller relies on technical aspects and intriguing storyline

Blurr movie review: taapsee pannu's thriller takes sharp turns at every corner and keeps us hooked on to its interesting storyline. the direction is solid and the cinematography is the highlight of the film..

• Movie Name: Blurr
• Critics Rating: 2.5 / 5
• Release Date: DEC 9, 2022
• Director: Ajay Bahl
• Genre: Thriller

Blurr Movie Review: This year has given us some delectable thrillers to binge on. Genre lovers will certainly look back at 2022 as a time when Indian cinema really pushed the boundaries with storytelling. Blurr, which is now streaming on ZEE5, is a welcome addition to the bag of experimental films testing the audience's taste and Taapsee Pannu continues on her journey of picking up subjects that are risky but come with a reward. This one has paid off for the actress as niche audiences will certainly enjoy Blurr, an edge-of-the-seat drama starring her in a double role. Apart from the performances that keep you hooked to what's unfolding on the screen, the real heroes of the film are its technical aspects- the direction and cinematography. 

The story unfolds in the hills of Uttarakhand. Since the movie is shot in cold weather, the setting automatically lends itself to the mood of the film, which aims at isolating the protagonist. Blurr is atmospheric and the background score helps in building the tension beat by beat. The storyline is full of surprises and for the most part, it manages to build a certain level of intrigue that is teased in the first act. Gayatri's twin sister Gautami is found dead in her apartment under mysterious circumstances and despite the police calling it a case of suicide, Gayatri knows deep within it is not the truth. She then sets out to find out what happened with her sister, relying on her instincts and the twin effect.

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In the supporting role, Gulshan Devaiah as Neel has done a decent job. He complements the part he plays and looks well opposite Taapsee. The surprise package is however Abhilash Thapliyal who bites into his character and presents us with something interesting. His performance adds another layer to the film and lifts the storytelling. 

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Ajay Bahl has distinctly divided the film into two parts. The initial half is pacy and the most part goes into setting up the mystery while we doubt the protagonist's sanity. The second half slows down the tempo a bit. By then, the visual tone of the film and the treatment has also synced in and the director then takes us on a ride with sharp twists and turns. The unpredictability of the plot keeps the guessing game going. As the suspect list keeps getting smaller, will Gayatri's sanity prevail?

Blurr checks out all the boxes of a thriller film. It has a visual style, a good storyline and adept direction.  

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Blurr review: the film never loses sight of its primary purpose - delivering a thriller that makes the most of its resources while staying within its chosen parameters..

Taapsee Pannu in Blurr . (courtesy: taapsee )

Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Gulshan Devaiah

Director : Ajay Bahl

Rating: Three stars (out of 5)

Invisibility and impaired vision - one does not flow into, or from, the other but they do intersect in significant ways - are two key plot elements in Blurr , a taut, tense psychological thriller centred on a woman battling progressive eyesight loss and personal tragedies.

Faced with a scenario that quickly spins out of control, the protagonist stumbles, falls, runs into obstacles, and weaves in and out of dark corners in a struggle to ward off bodily harm. Her worsening plight and her responses to the danger that swirls around form the crux of the two-hour film.

Blurr does not break new ground in the thriller terrain, but it never goes off the boil either. Director Ajay Bahl ( B.A. Pass, Article 375 ) and cinematographer Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary create a grey, subdued palette that approximates the growing dimness within and around the beleaguered central character - she is 'central' in the truest sense of the word, the camera is always on her face, capturing every emotion, every twitch, every sign of alarm.

She is an anthropologist (her calling has no bearing on her fate, though) who is running away from a threat that she cannot catch clear sight of or fully comprehend. She labours to crack the mystery of the death of her twin sister. It is a daunting task.

Taapsee Pannu, who is also the film's producer, headlines the nifty crime drama without missing a trick. Streaming on Zee5, Blurr, a remake of a Spanish thriller, is the first offering from the actor's new-fangled production banner Outsiders Films. It is a strong enough genre movie, assiduously designed and well-acted, to indicate that she and her company have the right ideas.

Blurr is packed with twists and turns that hit home with a fair degree of force. The film isn't hemmed in by its crime thriller antecedents. While not overly deviating from the norms of the form, it presents a larger view of human frailties and failings and what it means to live in the shadow of insignificance, especially when one has had to reckon with a tortuous, mentally scarring upbringing. That is where the malevolent, sociopathic force that the heroine is up against comes in.

Amid the unrelenting darkness that has the film in a tight embrace, Taapsee Pannu shines bright as she slips with striking ease and efficiency into the skin of a woman in steadily increasing physical and emotional distress. She fleshes out a character with whom you instantly empathise not only because of her obvious state of vulnerability but also owing to her unswerving tenacity and temerity.

Interestingly, Blurr is the third Taapsee Pannu starrer after Badla (2019) and Dobaara (2022) that has been adapted from a movie by Spanish screenwriter-director Oriol Paulo. Badla and Dobaara were remakes of The Invisible Guest and Mirage, both directed by Paulo. Blurr is based on Julia's Eyes , a well-received 2010 film co-written by Paulo and produced by Guillermo Del Toro.

Set in an Uttarakhand hill town where nothing seems to stir until a big, ominous gust of wind hits it, Blurr kicks off with what appears to be a suicide. A sightless Gautami (Taapsee Pannu), who lives alone, takes her own life. In Delhi, her twin, Gayatri (Pannu), wakes up from a bad dream that serves as a premonition of the calamity.

She and her husband Neel (Gulshan Devaiah, solid despite limited scope) rush to Gautami's home in the hills. There, they find her body hanging from the ceiling. The local police, in a hurry to close the case, conclude that Gautami died by suicide. Gayatri is determined to prove that her sister was murdered. She begins to dig for the truth.

Gautami, a musician, was a loner and had no friends. But Gayatri feels a couple of her sister's neighbours, each as strange as the other, might be able to provide crucial information that could help her get to the bottom of things. She finds a few leads, and dead-ends, as she ferrets around.

The film, which has virtually no scene without Gayatri at its core, is about a pair of eyes that are gradually losing their power to see. The camera is more often than not trained on a face - Gayatri's - while the people around her are either out of the frame or are only partially visible. The mountains and the winding roads are a physical presence, but they do not loom large over the images. The film is shot primarily in cramped, dimly lit interiors surrounded by dull, daunting walls.

These spaces collectively constitute a disquieting bubble that traps and terrorises the central character. The world outside is shut out because she o sees less and less. But her ability to sense what is going on around her intensifies and evolves into her only shield, however feeble, against a mysterious predator.

When the action does occasionally move out into the open, what is visible of the landscape is enveloped in thick mist, sheets of rain, dense floating clouds or just a pall of obscurity. The film explores with equal acuity the perils of not being seen and not being able see.

Loss of vision is perceived, from one standpoint that is crucial to the unravelling of the secrets that hover in the background, as a metaphor for the propensity of an uncaring world to turn a blind eye to those that are doomed to languish in anonymity.

Gayatri can sense a presence of an intruder in the house and its immediate vicinity but her husband dismisses her fears as a figment of a febrile imagination. The couple recalls their happier days but there isn't any room in the film for rhythm-breaking flashbacks and gratuitous romantic interludes. The screenplay by Pawan Sony and the director makes it a point not to let in anything that could diminish the film's grip and dilute the intensity of the drama of survival.

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Blurr uses its hill town setting in a manner that is far removed from how Mumbai genre movies usually treat the hills and the clouds that cast a shadow on them. The town and its environs serve as an evocative location that mostly stays off camera, encouraging the viewer to anticipate, in the way the harried protagonist herself does, what lies beyond the confines of a house frequently enveloped in darkness.

Blurr never loses sight of its primary purpose - delivering a thriller that makes the most of its resources while staying within its chosen parameters - and delivers thrills and intrigue every split second of the way. It is a solid genre movie that is well worth a watch.

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फिल्म 'ब्लर' स्पेनिश साइकोलॉजिकल थ्रिलर 'जूलियाज आइज' की हिंदी रीमेक है, जिसकी कहानी  नैनीताल की पृष्ठभूमि पर आधारित है। जहां गौतमी (तापसी पन्नू) और गायत्री (तापसी पन्नू) नामक दो जुड़वा बहने रहती हैं।

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तापसी पन्नू पिछले कुछ वर्षों से थ्रिलर स्पेशलिस्ट बन गई हैं। 'बदला', 'गेम ओवर', 'हसीन दिलरुबा', 'लूप लपेटा' और 'दोबारा', जैसी थ्रिलर फिल्में के बाद अब 'ब्लर' ओटीटी पर रिलीज हो रही है। इस साल 'लूप लपेटा', 'दोबारा', 'शाबाश मिट्ठू' के बाद तापसी पन्नू की 'ब्लर' चौथी फिल्म है। 'ब्लर' को तापसी पन्नू अपने तरीके से बनाना चाह रही थी इसलिए उन्होंने फिल्म का निर्माण खुद ही किया है। यह फिल्म स्पेनिश साइकोलॉजिकल थ्रिलर 'जूलियाज आइज' की हिंदी रीमेक है। फिल्म में तापसी पन्नू ने दो जुड़वा बहनों का किरदार निभाया है।

रोमांच के टूटते धागे थ्रिलर फिल्मों की सबसे बड़ी खासियत यह होती है कि फिल्म से दर्शकों का रोमांच अंत तक बना रहता है। लेकिन 'ब्लर' देखने के बाद ऐसा रोमांच नही रहता है। तापसी पन्नू ने जुड़वा बहन का किरदार निभाया है, दोनों किरदार में काफी समानता है। गायत्री अपनी बहन की  मौत का पता लगाते लगाते अपनी आंखों की रोशनी खो देती हैं और अपनी बहन की तरह अंधी हो जाती है, यहां यह लॉजिक समझ में नहीं आता कि गायत्री अपनी बहन गौतमी की तरह अंधी क्यों हो जाती है? जुड़वा बहन होने के नाते यह जरूरी नहीं कि जो बीमारी एक बहन को हो वह बीमारी दूसरी भी बहन को हो।

कसौटी तर्क की डॉक्टर गायत्री को सलाह देते है कि अगर आंख का  जल्द ऑपरेशन नहीं हुआ, तो उसकी आंखों की रोशनी कभी भी जा सकती है। इतना ही नहीं प्रकाश उसकी आंखों के लिए जहर की तरह है। अपनी व्यक्तिगत समस्या से जूझती गायत्री अलग-अलग लोगों से जाकर मिलती है। अपनी बहन के बारे में पूछताछ करती है। इस दौरान कोई शख्स उसका पीछा करने लगता है, इन सबसे बेपरवाह गायत्री को पता चलता है कि उसकी बहन का एक बॉयफ्रेंड भी था। गायत्री के साथ भी वैसी ही घटनाएं घटने लगती है, जैसी घटनाएं उसकी बहन के साथ घटी थी।  

खास लोगों को लक्षित फिल्म पूरी फिल्म की कहानी गौतमी की हत्या किसने की, इसी के इर्द गिर्द घूमती है। कहीं उसकी हत्या में गायत्री के पति नील का हाथ तो नहीं है? इस तरह से कहानी आगे बढ़ती रहती है और महसूस होता है कि ऐसी कहानियां तो दर्शक पहले भी कई बार फिल्मों में देख चुके हैं।  फिल्म की कहानी सिर्फ तीन चार किरदारों के ही इर्द गिर्द घूमती और दर्शकों को यह समझते देर नहीं लगती कि गायत्री की बहन की हत्या किसने की होगी। तापसी पन्नू मानती है कि थ्रिलर फिल्में देखने का एक खास वर्ग है और उन्होंने 'ब्लर' का निर्माण उन्हीं खास वर्ग के दर्शकों को ध्यान में रखकर किया है। 

तापसी पन्नू के कंधों पर जिम्मेदारी पूरी फिल्म तापसी पन्नू के कंधे पर ही टिकी हुई है, ऐसी स्थिति में तापसी पन्नू की जिम्मेदारी काफी बढ जाती है, लेकिन फिल्म में वह सिर्फ तापसी पन्नू ही नजर आईं, उन्हें अपने कंफर्ट जोन से निकलने की जरूरत है। फिल्म की कहानी तापसी पन्नू को पसंद आई और फिल्म 'ब्लर' को अपने तरीके बना सके, इसलिए उन्होंने फिल्म का निर्माण खुद ही किया। स्ट्रेसफुल किरदार में दर्शक तापसी पन्नू को काफी समय से देखते आ रहे हैं और अब उन्हें इससे हटकर कुछ अलग किस्म के किरदार निभाने चाहिए। तापसी पन्नू के अलावा फिल्म में गुलशन देवैया मजबूत कड़ी हो सकते थे, लेकिन उनको स्क्रीनस्पेस बहुत कम मिला, फिल्म के बाकी कलाकारों का भी अभिनय सामान्य है।

अजय बहल का सुस्त निर्देशन 'बीए पास', और 'सेक्शन 375' जैसी फिल्में निर्देशित कर चुके अजय बहल इस बार 'ब्लर' में थोड़ा कमजोर पड़ गए, थ्रिलर फिल्मों की खासियत यह होती है कि दर्शक फिल्म से आखिरी तक जुड़े रहें, लेकिन फिल्म शुरु होने के पांच मिनट के बाद अपनी पकड़ खो देती है। अमूमन ऐसी फिल्मों की खासियत यह होनी चाहिए कि दर्शकों की उत्सुकता शुरू से लेकर अंतिम तक बनी रहे। फिल्म की खासियत सिर्फ इतनी सी है कि अंधी हो जाने के बाद भी एक लड़की किस तरह से अपनी बहन की  मौत के रहस्य का पता लगाने के पीछे अपनी जान तक की परवाह नहीं करती है।

तकनीकी टीम ने दिखाया कमाल फिल्म 'ब्लर' की शूटिंग नैनीताल में हुई है। सुधीर चौधरी की सिनेमैटोग्राफी आंखो को सुकून देती है। नैनीताल की खूबसूरत वादियों को सुधीर चौधरी ने बहुत खूबसूरती से पेश किया है। फिल्म के कुछ दृश्य लंबे है जिन्हें थोडी सी एडिट करने की जरुरत थी। फिल्म का गीत संगीत सामान्य है।  फिल्म की खासियत यह है कि फिल्म का बैकग्राउंड म्यूजिक अच्छा है जो सीन को बांधे रखता है। इसका पूरा श्रेय केतन सोधा को जाता है।

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Blurr Review: Taapsee Pannu carries this gripping thriller on her shoulders but it deserved better execution

Akash Bhatnagar

• December 9, 2022
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Film:  Blurr

Director:  Ajay Bahl

Star cast:  Taapsee Pannu, Gulshan Devaiah, Abhilash Thapliyal

Bollywood Bubble ratings:  2.5 stars

Blurr Movie Review:

First thing first, Blurr marks the first stint as a producer for Taapsee Pannu and the actress-producer should be applauded for the subject she chose for her first production. A remake of the Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s 2010 Spanish film Julia’s Eyes, Blurr promised an intriguing plot, and it delivered on that. However, the execution of it all is where the film suffered.

The creation of the environment in the film, the colour palette, the locations and the whole ambience is what makes you feel engrossed throughout the run of the film, but when the performances and the writing kicks in, the film begins getting ‘blurry’ indeed. Blurr has all the right ingredients of a spooky and intriguing murder mystery thriller and it builds on it, but falls short of reaching the level of excellence it clearly had the potential for.

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Gayatri (played by Taapsee Pannu) is an anthropologist and one day, she senses her twin sister Gautami, who is going blind and is waiting for a donor, is in trouble and goes to check on her with her husband Neel (Gulshan Devaiah). Upon reaching, they find Gautami dead, and while the cops rule it out as a suicide, Gayatri is convinced that it is a murder. With no one supporting her, she embarks on a journey to uncover the truth, while herself battling the same condition that Gautami suffered and has started going blind. Will she be able to find out the truth with a blurred vision?

Star Performances:

It is indeed a Taapsee Pannu show all the way. The film centers around her and depends completely on her capabilities as she is practically in each and every frame of the film, and she hardly disappoints. She takes a while to adjust to the world and her character in the beginning, and I couldn’t notice any prominent dissimilarity between Gautami and Gayatri, but a few minutes into the film, Taapsee finds her groove. The conviction in her part where she plays blind is truly praiseworthy. Although, I must add that her dialogue delivery at some places felt a little hammy, something you don’t expect from her. It isn’t her greatest performance, but surely amongst her better ones.

I was heartbroken to see Gulshan Devaiah in this one. He was heavily underutilised and the part where he is on screen, he seems to be trying to pull off something different that is just coming out fake and pretentious. It felt like the actor inside him wants to come out but the demeanour that he has donned for the character, is just not allowing him to. He is an actor of immense caliber and seeing him in such an underwhelming avatar was indeed a bit disappointing.

Abhilash Thapliyal delivers an impressive performance, showing that it isn’t just the web series space that he has mastered. He has a pretty predictable yet extremely well executed part in the film, and he delivers it with full authenticity. He already leaves you impressed with just his voice, even before you get to see him. But here too, there is one integral scene of him that should prove chilling, but turns involuntarily funny, making you feel a little curled up. Still, on a whole, he has done a brilliant job.

Kritika Desai, Bipin Nath, Sumit Nijhawan constitute for some of the more important supporting cast, but except Kritika maybe, that too in one or two scenes, no one leaves an impact as such. They just act as a means to take the story forward without leaving any mark of their own.

Direction/Screenplay:

This part is a little conflicting for me. To begin with the good part, I have to credit the cinematography of Sudhir Chaudhary who has created an engrossing world that hooks you in the story brewing in it and the use of colour by the set designers and the production team is impeccable. Whereas, as for the direction and the screenplay, it falters in the first half and seems quite superficial at many parts, but in the second half, the visual storytelling is too good to miss. The way director Ajay Bahl connects the audiences to Taapsee’s blindness by not showing the faces of people she is interacting with, you really feel like you are in Taapsee’s world. But I also need to mention that there are some scenes that feel really fake and over the top, especially a scene where Taapsee and Gulshan talk romantically about the sky. The chemistry is just not there, and at places, it’s not just Taapsee but many other actors whose dialogue delivery just seems weird and those scenes probably should have been redubbed.

Conclusion:

In conclusion of my review for Blurr, I would say that it was a sincere attempt by the team and the technicians made it engrossing, with Taapsee and Abhilash’s performances supporting them, but the writing, direction and rest of the performances were very shaky that stopped this film from reaching its full potential. It is an okay film but when you have an actress like Taapsee at the front, seeing her filmography, Blurr would sit in the middle of the pack in that list.

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Blurr Movie Review: Disjointed Scenes, Confused Storytelling End Up Snatching The ‘Thrill’ From This ‘Thriller’

Taapsee pannu deserves better and this doesn’t even come close to that.

Star Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Gulshan Devaiah, Abhilash Thapliyal & ensemble.

Director: Ajay Bahl

What’s Good: Abhilash Thapliyal even with just his silhouette and mid-riff manages to be the best thing about this movie.

What’s Bad: A thriller trying so hard to be a thriller that it completely forgets it is supposed to have a conversation with its audience and not just with itself.

Loo Break: Nothing here feels connected actually, take one at any point.

Watch or Not?: Only if you don’t have any other option and that is not even a rare case scenario now.

Language: Hindi (with subtitles).

Available on: Zee5

Runtime: 126 Minutes

One of the twin sisters ends her life under some very strange circumstances and the alive one is left with the task to find out if it was a suicide or a murder. The investigation leads to some dark alleys and the bad man is a maniac.

Blurr Movie Review: Script Analysis

Whodunits in cinema are one of the most demanding kinds of films regardless of the language and landscapes they are made in. It does not just demand ultimate attention from the maker and the crew involved in creating it, but even the viewer because they have to understand and dissect it. In this barter, if the investment of the viewer is wasted due to the lethargy of the product, it irks more than a normal film would. PS: Malayalam movie Bhoothakaalam is a fine example of how to make a thriller in the recent times.

Taapsee Pannu starrer and produced Blurr is a classic example of how not to structure a thriller anymore. Directed by Ajay Bahl, and also written by him with Pawan Sony, the movie is a remake of the 2010 Spanish film Julia’s Eyes. The premise of the movie is quite complicated. A blind girl hangs herself in the presence of a mysterious someone and her sister has to now find out who while jumping in the same muck. It even opens with a very haunting scene, and then leads to the unfolding. But Bahl and his co-writer chose to go the staple way with the word go itself.

There is no visible effort to introduce any new or improvised way of storytelling. It’s the same technique we have seen over the years. Convenient plot twists, everyone is at the right place at the right time, or wrong place maybe, you get it. For example, Taapsee enters a room full of blind women and guess what, they are discussing her sister’s death with the most intricate detail including the name of the hotel she went to, what possibility! Many such instances lead to killing the urge to get a unique film.

The rest of it is killed by the pace that is not bothered about the emotions of its very protagonist who has lost her sister, husband, and is about to lose her eyesight. She is never given space to grief so she at least looks humane enough so we can connect with her. The movie is so hell-bent on jumping from one scene to another that it even introduces some points and forgets about them completely. The dead sister was a musician who hated rap. Why was she is musician? How does it even serve a purpose to the story if you have highlighted it so visibly?

Credit where it’s due, the idea of not showing the faces of the people around Taapsee after she loses her eyesight is good and something fresh. But the build-up to it dilutes the impact. Yes, the movie is trying to talk about our lack of attention to the people around us and their intentions, but the track it chooses to drive the point home is now jam packed.

Blurr Movie Review: Star Performance

This is Taapsee Pannu’s third remake this year. The last two were pretty good and deserved every bit of appreciation for how fresh and pumped up they were. But this is not the Taapsee we deserve. Her performance as both Gayatri and Gautami is restrained and feels like she isn’t opening up entirely. There is scope for so much more and you don’t need to have any master sensibilities to see that. The actor has done way better and needs to get back to that.

Gulshan Devaiah gets to play a husband who is also a potential culprit but also disappears in between. His part is written so abruptly that nothing about it makes any sense to the script after a point.

Abhilash Thapliyal though is in an altogether different film. With a very confused purpose, the actor is convinced about being bad and put a whole lot of effort into acing the material he is given.

Blurr Movie Review: Direction, Music

Ajay Bahl relies a lot on the landscape he has set his movie in. Full marks to Sudhir K Chaudhary for building the gory environment with his camera, but that is not enough to create an entire movie. Also, why is the editing of the movie so abrupt? Scenes jump from one to another without any transition element involved most of the time. If it was a device to create any impact, it didn’t work for me at least.

Blurr Movie Review: The Last Word

Blurr is how not to make whodunits anymore. Taapsee Pannu deserves better and this doesn’t even come close to that.

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Blurr releases on 09 December, 2022.

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Blurr is a 2022 Indian movie directed by Ajay Bahl starring Taapsee Pannu, Gulshan Devaiya and Abhilash Thapliyal. The feature film is produced by Vishal Rana, Taapsee Pannu, Pranjal Khandhdiya and Tony D'souza

Director: Ajay Bahl Producers: Vishal Rana, Taapsee Pannu , Pranjal Khandhdiya, Tony D'souza, PRADEEP SHARMA, Manav Durga Cinematographer: Sudhir K Chaudhary Editor: Manish Pradhan Original Story Writers: Pawan Sony, Ajay Bahl

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Release date: 09 December, 2022

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BLURR is the story of a woman investigating the death of her sister. Gautami (Taapsee Pannu) is a blind woman who resides alone in Nainital in her house. She is tormented by the presence of someone in her house. She is about to hang herself but then changes her mind. ...  At this point, the intruder kicks the stool beneath, due to which Gautami dies. Her twin sister Gayatri (Taapsee Pannu), based in Delhi with her husband Neil (Gulshan Devaiah), reaches Nainital after the former gets a feeling that Gautami is not fine. Though the cops rule out any foul play and conclude that Gautami was depressed after losing her eyesight and hence took her own life, Gayatri refuses to believe it. She finds clues that lead her to believe that Gautami was not alone when she died. Upon enquiries, she learns that Gautami had a boyfriend. She also realizes that she’s being followed but Neil and even the investigating inspector Chandel (Sumit Nijhawan) refuse to acknowledge it. Soon, Gayatri falls in trouble and on top of that, she realizes that even she will lose her eyesight soon, just like Gautami. What happens next forms the rest of the film.

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