Storyline
Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s Raman Raghav. His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young Cop keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face to face.
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Premiered at the Directors' Fortnight with the title Psycho Raman. See more »
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Rating: 9/10
I had two reasons to watch this movie, one was Anurag Kashyap and the
other my own preference for Psychological thrillers.
The movie begins with a disclaimer that it isn't about the real Raman
Raghav but in spirit he is present throughout the movie. Ramanna's
(Nawazuddin) past is quite unknown and neither does the movie delve
much into it, quite like the real psycho Raman whose early life and
incidents were unknown to the world. Again the episode of his abusive
relation with his sister is inspired by real Raman Raghav's abuse of
his sister.
Ramanna is portrayal of an emotionless serial killer, who goes about
his business quite nonchalantly. But there is more to him than that, he
has a perception of Raghav (Vicky Kaushal) in his own twisted head and
most of his actions in the movie are guided by the same. Raghav is
again not your typical angry young cop, he has too many issues of his
own and by the end of the movie he is more of a character in black than
Raman. He has deep running flaws but chooses to deal with them in his
own way.
This movie is obviously not the run-of-the-mill cop hunting serial
killer story, rather there is a reversal of role with respect to that.
The actual interaction between the two title characters comes towards
the end. Yet, the viewer never gets the feeling that the scenes
involving the two are not related.
There are quite a few well-etched sequences, the one where Simmy
reminds the double standards of Raghav with respect to murders and his
own personal life, the final scene between Raman and Raghav. Vicky
Kaushal holds ground well and is quite good in his portrayal of the
angst-ridden Raghav. Sobhita Dhulipala had a limited role due to the
needs of the story but is able to do justice to it and Amruta Subhash
has a small yet memorable role.
But Nawazuddin takes the cake here, giving his best performance to
date. He seamlessly portrays a calm, cold- blooded serial killer, with
underlining mental frailties. He can appear to be the weakest person in
the entire scene, easy to dismiss him off merely as a psychopath but
there is a method to his madness.
Needless to say the music was incredible and added flavor to the movie,
making it richer. Acting is quite good and natural overall. For me this
is one of Anurag Kashyap's best works to date.
P.S. Good to see some of the members of Wasseypur team returning back
in acting department, Murari Kumar (Guddu in Wasseypur and was also
seen in Ugly) and Mukesh Chhabra.
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