Haiwaan movie review: Akshay Kumar-Saif Ali Khan-starrer is the usual mix of genres Priyadarshan serves, the first half setting up the premise of an innocent man being imprisoned, and the second turning into an unintentional comic police procedural.
Haiwaan movie review: Haiwaan vs Insaan, monster vs human, that age-old conflict in the movies, gets a refresh in Haiwaan, with Priyadarshan re-upping his own 2016 Malayalam hit Oppam. Here Saif Ali Khan plays the sightless Shyam, up against Akshay Kumar’s murderous Parshuram, in a film which stays largely faithful to the original.
In Priyan’s world protagonists and antagonists are , with lashes of heavy-handed humour thrown in. The mix works in some of his movies, mostly his loud comedies in which the cast is tasked with delivering dialogues when not hanging off cliffs: Haiwaan is the usual mix of genres in Priyadarshan’s films, in which tonal switches abound, the first half setting up the premise of an innocent man being imprisoned for a crime he didn’t do, and the second turning into an unintentional comic