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Based on a 2011 Korean film of the same name, ‘Blind’ gives us the story of a young cop who has lost her sight in a terrible accident. Out of a job, and grieving over a death she has caused, Gia’s (Sonam Kapoor) only solace is her seeing-eye dog Elsa, and the loving woman (Lillette Dubey) who runs the orphanage she grew up in, in Glasgow.
And then one day, a chance encounter with a sinister man turns her life upside down. Returning home from a visit to the orphanage, she gets into what she thinks is a taxi, but a few things make her uncomfortable: something moving in the boot (is that a human voice crying out?), the driver’s insistence that she drinks water (is the liquid safe?), and his all-round creepy behaviour. Local girls that have gone missing have been in the headlines: could it be this guy behind it?
Quite soon into the film, the identity of the serial killer is revealed. The suspense is meant to come from the cat-and-mouse game between the killer and Gia. But Kapoor is wholly ineffective, and except for one sequence in which the killer is chasing her down buses, subways and the riverfront where you can feel real danger, this thing is deadly dull. The rest of the cast — Purab Kohli as a doctor with a dark side, Vinay Pathak as the always-chomping-on-fast-food desi sleuth, Shubham Saraf as an eye-witness to a crucial kidnap, and Lilette Dubey as the deeply religious maternal figure who believes everything will turn out fine — is wasted.
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The Korean crime flick aesthetic of dark frames, mostly shot at night, has been borrowed wholesale here. This could have been a respectable thriller, but there is zero chill factor here.
Blind movie cast: Sonam Kapoor, Purab Kohli, Vinay Pathak, Lillette Dubey, Shubham Saraf
Blind movie director: Shome Makhija
Blind movie rating: 1 star
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