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For fans of the typical K. Madhu - S.N. Swami type of thrillers, 'Rahasya Police' may seem a disappointment, except perhaps for the climax, which has been worked out rather well.
By Thomas T  2 Stars
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1.5 stars What does a film like Rahasya Police set out to accomplish? To have its viewers on the edges of their seats perhaps, biting their nails in anticipation, and waiting with baited breath to see what had actually transpired behind the scenes. As of now, it is a bleak, crackpot sludge that should have headed straight to TV. - VN    Sun, 26 Jul 2009
More than anything else, Rahasya Police puts up on screen a taut message to its makers - its time to move on. The archetypal who-dunnits have lost their charm and they are fast turning out to be major slumps-in the-seats instead.

There is not much of a story to contemplate on, except that a girl (Mangala) gets murdered. There are plenty of suspects all around, and as is the usual case, the local Sub Inspector (Jayaram) has arrested a prime suspect (Ganesh) who is as innocent as he could possibly get. Perhaps taking into account the budget constraints, the CBI has been left out of the investigation, and instead the Crime Branch (Guess who?) arrives on the scene to take a closer look.

The real tragedy that befalls the film arises out of the fact that the makers are on the look around for the least susceptible character that fits the murderer bill. Once they have zeroed in on the person, they cook up a totally fabricated tale that sticks out like a sore thumb from the rest of the tale.

There comes a point when we realize that the film truly is nothing more than a platform for Jayaram to strut around in three diverse roles. The film never really generates the right amount of tension, and as a rule, we like our thrillers to have something more to them than a few jump starts.

Somehow the focus shifts away from the investigation all the time, and the storyline concerns itself with the suspects time and again. Towards the end of it, it so happens that the investigators plunge on the culprit all on a sudden, thanks to a chance encounter. Hence the plot development, if you could call it that, is feeble and often distended beyond imagination.

The premise on which the film builds itself up, has no rules, and pretty much nothing else, and so when the base drops out, the fall is quite nasty. Thankfully there isn't much blood and gore, but regretfully there isn't much fright, suspense or mystery either.

I am already looking forward to Jayaram's next, and have wiped off this silly cop caper from my thoughts. He does a fair job, no doubt, and he's a bankable actor as well, but this film alarmingly to mind some time not long ago, when he had almost vanished from the scene.

What does a film like Rahasya Police set out to accomplish? To have its viewers on the edges of their seats perhaps, biting their nails in anticipation, and waiting with baited breath to see what had actually transpired behind the scenes. As of now, it is a bleak, crackpot sludge that should have headed straight to TV.


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