Eons in the past, a buddy enlightened me with a rule of thumb to unravel the whodunit movies. He mentioned, ‘in a lot of the homicide thriller motion pictures the assassin is the least suspected character, not the obvious one.’
That is the enjoyable of watching a thriller. Mounting suspense resulting in teetering nailbiting moments because the story twines and untwines on the display. Aban Bharucha Deohans directed ‘Silence… Can You Hear It?’, streaming on Zee5, pans out effectively hatching these high-strung moments, however when the plot, sporadically, veers off to tortuous pitfalls, it’s Manoj Bajpayee who redeems it along with his thundering efficiency.
Because the film opens, the director wastes no time in establishing the homicide. The physique of a woman named Pooja (Barkha Singh) is noticed by some trekkers on the highest of a hill. She is the daughter of a retired decide, who needs the case to be probed by a particular cop: ACP Avinash Verma (Manoj Bajpayee). The ACP is infamous for his weird strategies of investigation as he does not draw back from crossing the strains and believes in delivering immediate justice.
Police commissioner Sanjay Sharma (Denzil Smith) just isn’t impressed by the thought, however on the insistence of the grieving father, he assigns the probe to ACP Verma, shifting him from the Narcotics Division and sparing him a small workforce to hold out the operation.
Earlier than the inquiry begins we’re conscious that there’s one other girl (Kavita) within the story who virtually died falling down the steps in the home and has slipped right into a coma. From the identical home, the identical day, Pooja, who’s a buddy of Kavita, had gone lacking. And the shady account of your complete sequence of occasions narrated by Kavita’s politician husband Ravi Khanna (Arjun Mathur) makes him the primary suspect of the viewers.
Then ACP Verma, as he launches the probe in search of Pooja’s publish mortem report and visiting the crime scene, calls consideration to the modus operandi of the homicide and begins connecting the dots to succeed in the wrongdoer. Henceforth, we take a look at the whole plot by way of the eyes of ACP Verma, whereas he discusses the twists and turns and leads the investigation along with his workforce.
All by way of the scheme, Ravi Khanna stays the prime suspect and the entire inquiry turns an arduous train to nail him. Fortunately, barring some dismally slack bits and disjointed scenes – squeezed in intentionally to mystify the story however left up within the air – the spectator goes with the stream shopping for a lot of the narrative. However as my ‘Byomkesh Bakshi’ fan buddy had informed me many years in the past, but once more the least suspected particular person seems to be the killer, and far credibly so.
All mentioned and completed, it will not be an exaggeration so as to add that with out Manoj Bajpayee – or somebody equally good who may embody the character so ingeniously – movie ‘Silence… Can You Hear It?’ may have silently slipped into historical past for the gaping holes within the yarn. Fearless ACP Verma exhibiting egoistic politician Ravi Khanna his place on the police station just isn’t the one scene price watching time and again.
Final however not least, Prachi Desai (as Sanjana Vatia) has made an admirable comeback within the film, whereas Sahil Vaid and Vaquar Shaikh – taking part in the opposite two cops within the ACP probe workforce – appeared in sync with one another.
