Ratsasan (Ratchasan) Review: A spine chilling engaging thriller with quite a few messages!

Director Ramkumar surprised us with a nice comedy movie Mundasupatti. Now he has taken a completely different script on hand and surprised us one more time.

In fact it is quite appealing to see how the director has handled such varied scripts like a pro.

The production quality of Ratsasan is wonderful. For a Tamil movie you can easily be proud of the movie’s quality and standard.

A psycho thriller story is not new to tamil cinema. We even recently had Imaikaa Nodigal in the same lines.

But Ratchasan is so different and it gives you a message that you take so seriously. The movie takes you through a roller coaster of emotions and thrills and engages you smartly.

There are ample twists and turns to keep you engaged as well – a must needed thing for a psycho thriller right?

We have Arun Kumar, played by Vishnu Vishal in a rather brilliant manner. Arun wants to make films – so he delves deep and researches about psycho killers to make a script based on that concept.

He goes to one producer after the other but gets rejected for various reasons.

Simultaneously, he faces pressure from his mom and uncle about taking up the cop job that comes to him due to the demise of his father.

He takes up the job and soon after, serial killings that involve school girls happen. The killings are cruel.

While the police has no clue about the killer, Arun, with the knowledge from the research he did for film making, strongly puts forth that the killings are done by a psycho killer who is clever and organized.

However, no one listens to him. Especially the higher official is egoistic and puts off Arun at various occasions.

It is when one of Arun’s own family is targeted, things get fierce and Arun gets in to chase the killer.

There is a sidetrack where Arun meets and falls for Viji (Amala Paul), who is a single mom of a mute child and a school teacher.

Amala Paul gets so little emphasize on the script, but she scores with the few scenes she gets to appear.

Kaali Venkat and Muniskanth appear in rather meaty roles and it is appealing to see them score without doing comedy.

The movie’s biggest strength is Ghibran’s music. The thrill, the tense, the suspense everything are backedup by his fantastic BGM.

In fact, without the music, Ratchasan would not be as scary, thrilling and engaging as it is! There are also a couple of pleasant tunes in the movie.

Apart from letting us take the main message of the film, we have quite a few messages scattered here and there throughout – but brilliantly so, without being preachy.

Doesn’t the movie have any negatives at all – surely it does! There are a couple of instances where you’d feel the movie is dragging a bit.

You could feel why so much effort and drag after the suspense has been revealed. But given that you still have an engaging screenplay, this can be excused.

Songs? Well, the movie can very well do without them. But I strangely felt there weren’t acting as speed breakers – yes that’s unusual.

Apart from these small negatives, the movie excels in what it focuses on.

The run time is a little over 2:30 (unlike what’s mentioned in the official statement – 2:50). But I felt all of the 2:30 hrs has been perfectly utilized for the sake of the script.

Kudos for Mundasupatti director for making such a brilliant movie.

Vishnu Vishal deserves a special mention for being so dedicated for the sake of the script. He has done his homework. He is physically fit for the role, and emotes variety in a brilliant way.

The actor has been giving limited but appealing performance on screen so far and Ratchasan can be called his career best in terms of performance and dedication.

Go watch Rachasan if you want a spine chilling thriller experience and digest a few crucial messages that are needed for the society today.