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‘Cuttputlli’ gives you theatrical experience at home

Director: Ranjit M Tewari. Cast: Akshay Kumar, Rakul Preet Singh, Sargun Mehta, Chandrachur Singh and Hrishita Bhatt. (Rating: ****)

The quiet, beautiful, exotic and lush green valley of Kasauli is struck by gruesome and mysterious murders.

An investigating cop with his prior knowledge of serial killers finds himself unveiling clues and chasing someone who doesn’t have a face, name, motive and whereabouts. ‘Cuttputlli’ is perhaps one of the most gritty, intense and dramatically captured whodunnit thrillers of recent vintage. It keeps you at the edge of your seat throughout.

Pooja Entertainment’s new-age thriller is helmed by Ranjt Tiwari and features Akshay Kumar, Rakul Preet Singh, Sargun Mehta and Chandrachur Singh in lead roles.

Pooja Entertainment has poured resources into creating a world which is so believable and real. The amount of work that has gone into creating detailed sets, characters and locations is impressive. ‘Cuttputlli’ is a classic example of vision, production, content and performance coming together to create one epic spectacle.

The director has not deviated from his brief and created this thrilling emotional ride, where you don’t want to miss a beat. The film is an adaptation of a South Indian cult classic, but the Hindi adaptation could very well be called a standalone noir-thriller, which is a rarity.

A thriller is as good as its actors, working on little nuances, quick emotions and palpable fear; creating well-defined and detailed, yet conflicted characters, something we haven’t seen very often in Indian Cinema.

Akshay Kumar, a mass star, takes a leap of faith and plays this multi-layered character, which could very well be his finest performance. He keeps shifting gears between being a cop and being human — his character smartly unplugs clues and tracks details to identify the serial killer.

Rakul Preet Singh is just as amazing and navigates her way with subtle emotions and a fine performance. Television star Sargun Mehta is a revelation; she just hits the ball out of the park without any effort. Chandrachur Singh is an established and seasoned actor, the kind of ease he shows on screen is superlative.

The characters played by Hrishita Bhatt and Gurpreet Ghuggi also add to the richness of the narrative.

The background music and the songs of the film keep the emotion quotient intact, and the pace is maintained. Mounting tension is a requirement of this genre and the composers have done exactly that.

This movie delivers a theatrical experience to your home. This is a well-made, well-crafted cinematic experience with outstanding performances. A highly recommended weekend watch!

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Akshay’s ‘Cuttputlli’ a gripping adaptation of the real-life cases

Akshay plays Arjan Sethi, a dutiful sub-inspector who took an oath to keep the people of Kasauli safe…reports Asian Lite News

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar’s room in the upcoming film ‘Cuttputli’ had a wall, which had over 500 real newspaper clippings of real stories and faces of the criminals.

‘Cuttputli’ is based in a small town where a cop is in pursuit of the person behind serial killings plaguing a quaint town.

The film marks a scene where Akshay researches all the psychotic serial killers, sitting in his room trying to understand the mentality and the ideology behind the mind of the criminal. Akshay’s room had a wall that had around over 500 real newspaper clippings.

Speaking about the clippings and the scene, director Ranjit M Tewari added: “Akshay sir’s character – Arjan Sethi is obsessed with the crime world and the world of serial killing. He starts the journey as a character of a filmmaker in the Punjabi film industry, who is obsessed and has done research over seven to ten years to make a film on the crime world.”

The director added that when they were creating his character’s world – the house and the setting, was very important for the maker to give Akshay Kumar a space in which he feels part of character Arjan Sethi rather than anyone else.

“So therefore, we just dressed up the entire wall with newspaper cuttings and photographers of real people, so that he gets a feel to it while shooting, that he has lived this life, that he has been part of this life.”

Tiwari shared that the art department, production designers and ADs, all came together and decided to find the real images, and real newspaper articles written on them, so that they could setup the space to make him feel a part of Arjan Sethi as much as he could.

“So we decided to have them from archive, research and websites, find the real images of those times, whether it is Ted Bundy, or Seema Gavit, or Cyanide Mohan, all these people from India as well as from people abroad who are serial killers and real articles and put it up on the wall and when Akshay sir saw it for the first time before shooting, he was so so happy with the kind of detailing that went into building the foundation from where he could start shooting the film.”

Akshay plays Arjan Sethi, a dutiful sub-inspector who took an oath to keep the people of Kasauli safe.

Produced by Vashu Bhagnani and Jackky Bhagnani, Deepshikha Deshmukh and Pooja Entertainment and directed by Ranjit M Tewari, ‘Cuttputli’ unmasks the killer and decodes the mystery using Arjan’s skills to understand the psyche of the murderer.