Birbal movie review: An investigation which kills two plus hours
Director: Srini
Cast: Srini, Rukmini Vasanth, Madhusudhan Rao, Suresh Heblikar, Sujay Shastry, Vineeth Kumar, Ravi Bhat, Aruna Balraj
Apart from the only connection with that of 15th century poet, advisor to Emperor Akbar - Birbal, and his real name being Mahesh Das, this reel Birbal has neither his wit nor the intelligence which one can watch out for two plus hours of journey, probing to prove a wrongly convicted person as innocent.
Written, directed and acted by Srini, the first from the Birbal trilogy kick-starts with the case of finding Vajramuni. Who is this Vajramuni, and why Mahesh Das, the protagonist goes behind an eight year old murder case to uncover the truth, is the epicentre of this 'whodunit’ tale.
The protagonist, is a lawyer who is extremely intelligent and has all the qualities of a clever detective agent! But wait, he is just selected as an apprentice with a leading law firm, who is later put on his first ever case as part of its free legal aid programme.
The most crucial aspect for a thriller of any nature on celluloid is to keep the audience engaged for an edge of the seat experience. Unfortunately, Birbal lacks this aspect but for a couple of moments as the audience after spending so much of time would obviously feel curious to know on who the actual killer is.
A genre of this nature is really challenging and the credit definitely goes to the maker for his honest attempt but the faltered execution spoils the fun.
Justice is delivered in no time in the beginning. First the killing, and the accused is convicted by the court with life imprisonment in no time. And, after eight years, the convicted is out on parole.
This is when advocate Mahesh Das enters taking the case as part of the legal aid programme from the legal firm which he has just joined. His fiancé is already a practising advocate in the firm.
He along with a less intelligent assistant and his lovely fiance run around to find the real culprit.
After the lawyer investigates the case through four separate dimensions, he finally gets the real murderer arrested. That's all. In between there is a song, Mohan Das’ ‘extreme’ intelligence, a time freeze effect sequence in which he cracks the case is all which is packed in this first case. And, it's a trilogy!
