‘Judgementall hai kya’ was one heck of a crazy ride. Well, until the very end. So, what didn’t work for me was that if you’re showing the antagonist as a good man till the very end and want us to be shocked that he is the evil in the end, maintain it. Like, Seriously, MAINTAIN the suspense till the very end so that it comes to me as a shock that Keshav is an evil.
Well that doesn’t happen, Take ‘The Usual Suspects’ for example. All the story built up for Keyser Soze, not for a split second do you feel Kevin Spacey might be the culprit. Nowhere is it even remotely prompted to the audience that Kevin Spacey is/might/can/shall be Keyser Soze, by any possibilty. That’s where lies the beauty of Cinema, efficiently lying and transporting the audience to different world, where the audience don’t expect to land up.
That’s not the case exactly with ‘Judgementall hai kya’, Right from the go, the posters, the trailers every marketing tool that they used screamed with their voices high that, “Hey, Rajkummar is not cool as he looks”, so we’re prepared for the fact that something is fishy with this guy. So, the end revelation doesn’t come as a shock but a merely as a forced delusion. It would have been great if they had revived Keshav’s character and made a franchise of it. Like a case of good not winning over bad but the other way round. Now, That sounds like an idea.