Dejavu Review…could have been wonderful, however…

Year: 2022
Genre: Investigation, Police, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Arulnithi, Madhoo, Achyuth Kumar, Ragav Vijay, Kaali Venkat, Smruthi Venkat, Chetan, Mime Gopi
Director: Arvindh Srinivasan
Writer: Arvindh Srinivasan
Cinematographer: P. G. Muthiah
Summary: The police are investigating a complicated case of a novelist whose fictional stories take place in real life. When a narrative is written on the kidnapping of a young girl, a special detective is summoned to solve this mystery

Overall Rating: Nuts
Unveiling the mystery of Dejavu was our curiosity and that’s what kept us going till the end. The film, in of itself, had a tremendous capacity to be wonderful, howeverrrrr…the weak acting and main theme deflated it
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Delicious
—How on earth does an author write about actual events taking place???😃
This question got us hooked on the scenario from start to finish. Subramani (Achyuth Kumar) would take a piece of paper and start writing about things that were happening concurrently, intriguing!
It was so baffling how he had the exact details from the kidnappers’ license plate number, the location names to even the detective’s interrogation setting
—The last 20 minutes or so of Dejavu were the most interesting. The director peeled off the mysteries in a captivating way and the additional characters introduced amazed us (sorry, we won’t go further than this, no spoiler intended 😉)

Bland
—Poor acting among the cast greatly impacted the flow of the story. Vikram, the detective, sustained the same tedious expression during the time of investigation that it became boring.
The supporting actors didn’t even step up to fill the void
—Music score sounded quite loud and too heroic
—Dejavu touched on the usual theme of vengeance; though we didn’t know who the perpetrators were and what was going on with the author’s stories, we weren’t blown away when the truth was exposed because it was a ‘déjà vu’