![]() Post-interval, both the police and the audience anticipate another murder but what we get is a tame cat-and-mouse game involving a decoy critic and a fake negative review of a widely loved film. The mystery surrounding the gruesome murders does not take firm roots because Chup goes back and forth between the who/why-dunnit and a blossoming romance between a lonesome flower seller and a young woman who has only just moved to Mumbai to further her journalistic prospects. Leading up to this point, the film provides other visual clues for the audience to be able to guess who the serial killer is. In the course of the fourth kill - an art gallery is the site of the crime - the identity of the killer is revealed. Before the halfway mark, three other murders of middle-aged men - yes, only men - from the same fraternity rock the city. The 135-minute film opens with the gruesome killing of a veteran film critic, found bloodied in the loo of his own apartment. Sadly, most of it lingers on the surface, leaving the heart of the plot rather soulless and incapable of triggering emotions any stronger than mild repulsion at the graphic and gory killings by a deranged man.Ī mild-mannered Bandra florist Danny (Dulquer Salmaan), an enthusiastic rookie reporter Nila Menon (Shreya Dhanwanthary), a hardened police investigator Arvind Mathur (Sunny Deol) and a business-like criminal psychologist Zenobia Shroff (Pooja Bhatt) serve as the four pillars on which the screenplay, written by Balki with film reviewer Raja Sen and Rishi Virmani, stands. The technical attributes of the film - the camerawork and the lighting, the editing, the soundscape and the production design - are perfectly orchestrated to create an air of foreboding. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chup - Revenge of the Artist - ignores these distinctions between the magical and the humdrum to craft a thriller about a serial killer who believes criticism is evil and targets film critics for their opinions. Similarly, not every movie reviewer is a film critic. ![]()
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