Review : Blurr : Blurred Entertainment!

These days thrillers are taking fancy of the audiences. #Drishyam2 received huge support from the viewers and Vadh too is getting rave reviews. Talented artiste #TaapseePannu has tuned producer and under her production house Outsiders Films she has produced Blurr, a #psychologicalthriller. Though it deals with a murder mystery, it doesn’t grip you all the time. Of course Pannu should be lauded for treading a non-commercial cinema path. Blurr is a official remake of #Spanishfilm #‘Julia’sEyes’ and tries to recreate the whodunnit story. But watching a single character throughout the film becomes burdening.

Blurr is about two sisters Gayatri (Taapsee Pannu ) and Gautami (Taapsee Pannu) staying away from each other and not much in touch too. Gautami has a vision loss and is staying in a hill station in Uttarakhand. She is waiting for an eye donor to get her vision back but suddenly is found dead. Police declare that Gautami died by suicide. But Gayatri rushes to the hill station and argues with the police that it’s a murder. Her husband Neil (Gulshan Devaiah) too tries to convince her but she doesn’t relent. The police do not buy that story and are ready to close the case. Genetically Gayatri too is going Gautami’s way as both are suffering from degenerative sight condition. Her vision starts getting blurred but she still continues to go after the killer as she feels him following her. How the mystery unfolds after twists and turns forms the crux of the story.

As it’s a remake, the writers have tried to recreate murder mystery in the Indian scenario. As the story has quite a few loose ends it fails to grip you as an audience. The terrible mistake in scripting seems to be the non-build up around an antagonist. Director Ajay Bahl tries to incorporate twists and turns but is unable to hold the ground. The lack of character back stories makes the film lose grip. But the cinematography (Sudhir K Chaudhary) is excellent and the background score too compliments the proceedings. Taapsee Pannu does well in a double role. She excels in intense scenes. Taapsee and Gulshan’s chemistry is missing. Krutika Desai is wasted. Blurr delivers a message too about mental health.

Blurr is unable to grip audiences’ attention and offers Blurred

entertainment.

**1/2