‘DNA’ Movie Review: A froth of contrast floats over Big, promising ideas

Nimisha Sajjayan and Atharva ‘DNA’ in Stills. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

A man lost to the winds of life and a mentally challenged woman gave life a second chance and got married. A young woman, whose sensitivity is wrong for disability, fights a lonely battle when she believes that her newborn child was swapped to someone else. A man, a piercing look at the social pressures falling on the most married couples in a conservative society, colliding with existence guilt and fleeing. A new father finds out that newborns take a month to develop different facial features and therefore struggles to identify their child. You find many such big, ambitious ideas, all director Nelson promises to come together in an attractive investigative thriller in Venkatson. DNAAtharva and Nimisha Sojyan starring.

Unfortunately, these ideas are disgruntled islands of ability. The film’s wish is to forgive its small laps and jump in its big pursuit. For example, we are introduced to the hero, Anand (Atharva, who gives all of them), a heart broke, who has left life and spends his time to drink and create a wall in self-replication. Just when you are wondering if it was really a heart that pushed him to such a low point, we learn that he is somewhat sad that has happened to her ex -boyfriend. Although he is probably not written as a villain, you find a feature in how the idea is communicated, and how it is left without the necessary follow -up follow -up.

Then we are introduced to Dhivya (Nimisha in the role of a monitor, not formed on the initial promise), a mentally challenged woman who does not mean any meaning to others how others experience her flaws. Nelson wants to create a strong case for those who tarnish mental illnesses or dysfuished “luzu” (meaning ‘dumb “). But then, whether Dhiwya suffers from cognitive development issues, or is he suffering from border personality disorder, or is she an intellectually disabled woman who is also suffering from BPD?

We have been told that she is quite sensitive and focuses on minor details of life. But it is only irony that the film maps her ‘illness’ and does not help us understand what happens in her brain, or if she can fully understand what marriage is, then living with a person who hardly knows about her situation, or, later, to have a child with her, really means that. What he saw in Anand, who agreed to an alliance, or when Anand saved him from embarrassment in his marriage and announced that it was a chance in a new life? We do not get any answer.

In fact, Dhiva and Anand are strangers with life, who are so different that you will expect one conversation or two as an entry point in understanding each other; Usually in such films, wedding nights, when they are alone for the first time, he provides opportunity. In DNAFunny, Dhivya makes a joke for joy, and they become intimate – again, she innocently says that she is unaware of what happens during traditionally during the night, but the attendant is surprised in her expression after a step, so you never really understand the dhikya.

Nimisha Sajayan still from ‘DNA’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

A big problem with DNA Is it a crowd in the statement, which is eager to achieve more sensational investigative thriller aspect of the film at this turn. Nevertheless, even in that regard, the film misses its IK dotting and crossing its tea. After a year that passes into an montage, Dhiwya gives birth to a child in a hospital; Shortly after seeing the child, he is taken to the incubator ward for a few minutes. When the child is brought back, a surprising Dhivya announced that it is not his child, but someone else. Nanda nor his mother believes him, and the chief doctor, learning about Dhiwya’s mental state, suspect that he is suffering from post-portum psychosis.

You will expect a story about the test of faith between the couple and an inquiry that questions you the story (given how the ‘post-portum psychosis’ is thrown), but here it is not so. We know what was transpired, and the rest of the film is about ‘How’-because Nelson decides to reveal a trump card and a spoon-feed information in a previous scene. Serving suspense requires some information that enhances our interest, but you wonder if it can be obtained without disclosing a major key for the case. It continues in a hurry during the hasty statement and convenient conspiracy. When one takes a step back, everything, from the initial scene, which follows a road accident, how police officers Chinnasamy (Balaji Santhawell) and Anand detect some major clues, seem terriblely convenient.

Nelson Venkaten’s previous film, FurnaceTelling a complicated thriller story with your heart at the right place and without much considering it. DNAWhile it bears its great intentions on its sleeve, it seems to the work of a low-confident writer-director who starts his film with a soup song at a time and ends all hopes with an item song at a time that does not give no purpose. And you thought that such tright ideas were no longer part of the genetic clothes of mainstream Tamil cinema.

DNA is currently running in theaters