The protagonist of DNA is a young man who has experienced the harsh realities of life on the streets. He then finds himself in a difficult situation with people he trusts and loves. He has to decide whether to leave the past behind by getting off the streets or to keep going in the same direction and risk everything if he wants to keep them. When he decides on the latter, everything falls apart.
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What is film about
A mentally handicapped woman gives life a second opportunity and marries a man who is lost to the winds of life. When a young mother thinks her newborn baby was switched with someone else’s, she fights a lonely battle since her sensitivity is misinterpreted as inability. A man who struggles with existential guilt and the need to flee takes a sharp look at the social pressures that most married couples in a conservative country must deal with. A new father finds it difficult to recognize his child after learning that it takes a month for distinctive facial traits to emerge. Director Nelson Venkatesan’s DNA, starring Atharvaa and Nimisha Sajayan, is full with such grand, ambitious concepts that promise to come together in an engrossing investigative thriller.
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Unfortunately, these concepts remain disconnected isles of possibility. The film wants you forgive its lesser faults and take a leap of faith in its greater ambition. Take, for instance, how we are introduced to the protagonist, Anand (Atharvaa, who gives his all), a devastated guy who has given up on life and spends his time drinking and wallowing in self-pity. We find out that he is burdened by something terrible that occurred to his ex-lover just as you are wondering if it was truly a heartbreak that drove him to such a low position. You find a convenience in the way the notion is conveyed and abandoned without the necessary follow-ups, even if it was probably not written with her in mind.
Star Cast of DNA
Nimisha Sajayan and Atharvaa headlining the film, DNA also features some known faces including Balaji Sakthivel, Ramesh Thilak, Viji Chandrasekar, Chetan, Riythvika KP, Subramanian Siva, Karunakaran, and Pasanga Sivakumar.
Composers of DNA
- Antal Aakash
- Sreekanth Hariharan
- Pravin Saivi
- Sathyaprakash
- Sahi Siva
- Ghibran Vaibodha
Director of DNA
Writers of DNA
A major problem with DNA is this rush in the narration, which at this juncture seems eager to get to the more sensational investigative thriller aspect of the film. Yet, even in that regard, the film misses dotting its i’s and crossing its t’s. After a year that passes by in a montage, Dhivya gives birth to a baby boy at a hospital; shortly after she sees the baby, he is taken to the incubator ward for a few minutes. When the baby is brought back, a puzzled Dhivya declares that this isn’t her baby but somebody else’s. Neither Anand nor her mother believes her, and the chief doctor, upon learning of Dhivya’s mental condition, suspects that she’s suffering from post-partum psychosis.
Given how “post-partum psychosis” is thrown in, you would anticipate a story about a test of faith between the pair and an inquiry that makes you question fact from fiction, but that isn’t the case here. Since Nelson chooses to disclose a trump card and spoon-feed information in a scene that comes before this, we already know what had happened, and the remainder of the movie focuses on the “how.” Giving us some intriguing information is necessary to create tension, but you question if it might have been done without disclosing a crucial piece of information. Throughout the ensuing investigation, this hurried narration and practical plotting persist.
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