Drishyam (Hindi) Movie Details:
| Based on | Drishyam by Jeethu Joseph |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Genre | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Release date | 31 July 2015 |
| Running time | 2hr 40min |
| Certificate | 13+ |
| Starring | Ajay Devgn Tabu Shriya Saran Ishita Dutta Mrunal Jadhav Rajat Kapoor |
| Directed by | Nishikant Kamat |
| Written by | Upendra Sidhaye |
| Story by | Jeethu Joseph |
| Produced by | Antony Perumbavoor |
| Cinematography by | Avinash Arun |
| Edited by | Aarif Sheikh |
| Music by | Songs: Vishal Bhardwaj Score: Sameer Phaterpekar |
| Production Company | Panorama Studios |
| Distributor | Viacom18 Motion Pictures |
Drishyam (Hindi) Movie Cast & Characters:
- Mohanlal as Georgekutty, a local cable TV operator
- Meena as Rani George, Georgekutty’s wife and Anju’s and Anu’s mother
- Ansiba Hassan as Anju George, George’s and Rani’s elder daughter
- Esther Anil as Anumol George (Anu), George’s and Rani’s younger daughter
- Asha Sharath as IG Geetha Prabhakar IPS, Prabhakar’s wife and Varun’s mother
- Siddique as Prabhakar, Geetha’s husband and Varun’s father
- Kalabhavan Shajon as Constable Sahadevan, a corrupt police constable and the main antagonist
- Neeraj Madhav as Monichan
- Irshad as SI Suresh Babu
- Roshan Basheer as Varun Prabhakar, Geetha’s and Prabhakar’s son who is the secondary antagonist
- Aneesh G. Menon as Rajesh, Rani’s brother and Georgekutty’s brother-in-law
- Kunchan as Head constable S. Madhavan, a police officer who is supportive to Georgekutty
- Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Sulaiman, Owner of the Tea Shop
- Baiju V. K. as Soman
- P. Sreekumar as Rani’s father
- Shobha Mohan as Rani’s mother
- Koottickal Jayachandran as Bus owner
- Kalabhavan Rahman as Bus conductor
- Kalabhavan Haneef as Theatre owner
- Balaji Sharma as Restaurant owner
- Sony G Solomon as Hotel owner
- Pradeep Chandran as New Sub-Inspector
- Antony Perumbavoor as Antony, a police officer
- Mela Raghu as Raghu, Waiter at the Tea Shop
- Arun S. Panackal as Alex, Varun’s friend at Nature Camp
- Nisha Sarang as School Principal
- Jeethu Joseph as Contractor of New Police Station
Storyline:
Vijay Salgaonkar runs a cable TV network in a remote and hilly village of Goa. He lives a happy life with his wife Nandini and two daughters. A 4th grade dropout & an orphan, Vijay has worked his way towards success with his sheer hard-work & street smartness in order to provide for his family who mean the world to him. A man of few means & needs; Vijay believes life is to be lived simplistically – his wife, while she loves him devoutly, wants Vijay’s thrifty & miserly behavior to end and wants the world for her family. If there’s one thing that Vijay cannot live without, it is his passion for watching films. Such is his ‘filmy’ obsession that he doesn’t mind staying up all night at his office binging on TV movies! In a bizarre turn of events; a teenage boy goes missing; he is the son of a headstrong & no-nonsense cop; IG Meera Deshmukh and the Salgaonkar family is the prime suspect! Will a humble & middle class man, be able to protect his family from oppression of the powerful? How the family weathers the storm that ensues during the violent investigation forms the rest of the story leading to an unexpected & shocking climax.
Drishyam (Hindi) Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
| Budget | ₹38 crore |
| Worldwide Collection | ₹147 crore |
About Drishyam (Hindi) Movie:
Drishyam is a remake of the 2013 Malayalam film, Drishyam by Jeethu Joseph.
In October 2014, it was announced that Saif Ali Khan would take the lead role and reprise the role played by Mohanlal in the 2013 Malayalam predecessor. There were also reports that Akshay Kumar will take up the lead, but in November 2014, it was announced that Ajay Devgn would star in the Hindi remake of the 2013 film Drishyam.
Plans then were to have Devgn reprise the role played by Mohanlal in the 2013 film. Later it was announced that Tabu will be playing the role of Meera Deshmukh a cop and Shriya Saran will play the wife of Ajay Devgn’s character.
Principal photography for the film was slated to begin in February 2015. Ajit Andhare, the chief operating officer of Viacom 18 Motion Pictures stated “Drishyam is an iconic film that leaves you spellbound and intrigued long after you have watched it.
Its box office record in Malayalam & Telugu speaks for itself.” Actor Ajay Devgn had been in Canada to shoot snow scenes for his upcoming film Shivaay, but light snow conditions had him reschedule that film and return to India to instead begin Drishyam.
The First 20 Day Shooting schedule of the film began on 13 March 2015 in Goa and ended on 1 April 2015. The second schedule of the film began in 2nd week of April. The first look of the film was unveiled on 29 May 2015.
Drishyam was released on 31 July 2015 on 2,365 screens in India and emerged as a critical and commercial success, earning over ₹111 crores worldwide. A sequel titled Drishyam 2 was released in 2022. Later in 2022, the film was released in China, earning $4.05 million pushing its worldwide total over ₹147 crores.
Legal issues
On the announcement of the Hindi remake, film producer Ekta Kapoor sent a legal notice to the Malayalam filmmakers. Ekta Kapoor acquired the movie rights of Japanese author Keigo Higashino’s book, The Devotion of Suspect X, and her legal team claimed that Drishyam is a film adaptation of the novel, for which they purchased rights. However, the original Drishyam director and screenwriter Jeethu Joseph, denied that his film is an adaptation or copy of the Japanese novel and film.
