The movie opens with George Kutty at the police station under suspicion and then goes back to the beginning. George runs a small cable TV operation in a rural area where he watches the movies and shows that he pumps out all day. That's how he becomes knowledgeable in many things despite a limited education. He's an orphan, a self-made man, and respected in the community. He has a family with two daughters. The older daughter Anju gets blackmailed and she kills the boy while trying to recover the cell phone. The father works to cover up the crime with knowledge he learned from the TV.
I saw the 2015 version first. The plot is generally the same. I don't know much about Bollywood. I'm assuming that the remake was done to appeal to the bigger audience with another language. It seems to be a bit more glossier also. I have similar praise and have similar problems. The blackmail incident happens almost an hour into this almost three hours movie. It's the inciting incident. A western movie could never withstand an introduction that is an hour long. The tone is totally different. When it happens, it becomes almost Hitchcockian. It's great after that.
I saw the 2015 version first. The plot is generally the same. I don't know much about Bollywood. I'm assuming that the remake was done to appeal to the bigger audience with another language. It seems to be a bit more glossier also. I have similar praise and have similar problems. The blackmail incident happens almost an hour into this almost three hours movie. It's the inciting incident. A western movie could never withstand an introduction that is an hour long. The tone is totally different. When it happens, it becomes almost Hitchcockian. It's great after that.