The new medical crime thriller, Dose, starring Siju Wilson in the lead role, is an idea that has been explored in many films before.
Dr. Prakash is a pulmonologist, and his wife, Ragitha, is someone who is struggling with a lung disease.
Dr. Arundathi is someone who works in the same hospital as Prakash, and they were in a relationship that didn’t work out.
Drishya Ragunath gets a character who gets lost in the chaos towards the end.
Unfortunately, Abhilash R Nair is going after the usual pattern of showing various subplots filled with montage songs and useless flashbacks.
Distraction and deception are essential ingredients in every suspense thriller, and it is the way these elements are incorporated into the screenplay that makes the viewing experience compelling. The new medical crime thriller, Dose, starring Siju Wilson in the lead role, is an idea that has been explored in many films before. The only way they could have made it interesting was by distracting the audience into believing a different narrative. Unfortunately, the distraction methods were so on your face that when the big reveal happens, it feels like a dull twist that wasn’t that surprising.
Dr. Prakash is a pulmonologist, and his wife, Ragitha, is someone who is struggling with a lung disease. Dr. Arundathi is someone who works in the same hospital as Prakash, and they were in a relationship that didn’t work out. While they both were trying to move on from their past, a series of events happened in the hospital where they work, as multiple patients died in a similar fashion. Prakash suspected some sort of foul play, and what we see here are the efforts by the authorities to find out the truth behind all those deaths.
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Written and directed by Abhilash R Nair, this thriller has the hangover of a lot of familiar thrillers, and it almost comes from a space where the director believes that the audience hasn’t seen many thrillers. The tracks he has added to the screenplay to make us navigate in a different direction are easily identifiable because of the kind of loudness with which they were presented. Eventually, when we realize what the real story was, we understand that several of these tracks were totally unwanted, even in the world-building of this thriller. Towards the end, the movie talks about a mental health condition, and on paper, a person with such a condition in a medical setup is an enticing concept. Unfortunately, this movie couldn’t build on that idea.
Siju Wilson, as the main character, Dr. Prakash, delivers an okay performance for a larger part of the movie, as it is not that demanding. However, there are sequences in the film where he breaks down mentally, and there is this one particular instant where he screams Why? to his wife, and the voice modulation was really bad. Drishya Ragunath gets a character who gets lost in the chaos towards the end. Ashwin Kkumar plays a key character in the movie, and I don’t understand why filmmakers are giving him really tough Malayalam dialogues when the option of using English is definitely there. I mean, there are instances in the movie where characters are ranting in English in the most forced manner. Krisha Kurup plays the part of Ragitha Prakash, and she was struggling with some of the excessively melodramatic dialogues. Jagadish gets a character who rarely contributed to the narrative.
There is a character named Dr. Nikhil in this movie who is a junior to our hero, and the writing of that character can be used to demonstrate the outdatedness of this thriller. Be it the womanizer comedy or the shocking twist, everything associated with him is extremely predictable and sloppy. The fact that the makers thought his scenes were either funny or surprising gives you an idea of how disconnected they are from an updated audience. The writing, at times, becomes a podium for the writer to demonstrate his accumulated knowledge. The stiffness of the dialogue also makes the viewing experience very tiresome. Establishing a mental health condition of one of the key characters is an important aspect of the movie, and the screenplay couldn’t bring authenticity in that, as it went after the buildup. Gopi Sundar’s score felt pretty generic.
The only thing interesting about Dose is the condition of one particular character. If they could have built the whole thing around that condition, the movie could have been a lot more engaging despite having a story that is familiar. Unfortunately, Abhilash R Nair is going after the usual pattern of showing various subplots filled with montage songs and useless flashbacks. Hence, once you backtrack the whole story after finding out the real reason, a good chunk of the scenes in this movie would end up looking like a pointless addition. The only thing that I liked and the only truly unpredictable thing in this movie was the placement of the title card, which comes at an odd place and won’t let anyone take a snap of that.
