Unlike the original, Drishyam 2 grips you from the very start. Six years since the unsolved case of Inspector General Geetha Prabhakar’s (Asha Sharath) missing son Varun, in which Geroge and his family are implicated, a lot has changed in Georgekutty’s sleepy town near Thodupuzha. Georgekutty himself has prospered and now owns a local cinema theatre besides his earlier cable TV enterprise. The newly constructed police station is now fully operational, but stories connecting Georgekutty and his family to Varun’s “murder” have still got tongues wagging – “Did you know his daughter and the boy were in a relationship?” “Did you know Georgekutty caught them in a compromising position and bumped him off?” and so on goes the talk about town in hushed whispers.
We also learn that the sympathy which Georgekutty and his family had from the locals earlier, has slowly dissipated, there…