Arjun Rampal in ‘Blind Game’|Image Credit: Zee 5
When kept in mind filmmaker Sangeeth Sivan died in 2024, he left an abundant tradition of genre-defining Malayalam movies such as Yoddha and Nirnayam together with a string of unapologetic Hindi potboilers. His posthumous thriller, Blind Gameshows up as an interesting last chapter, trying to transport the tight, puzzle-box perceptiveness of his 1990s thrillers into a Hindi adjustment of the Malayalam struck 7th Day. Yet, regardless of strong screen existence from Arjun Rampal and Priyamani, the movie has a hard time to match the razor-sharp craft of his early profession, leaving both the plot and its characters lost in the mist of the Himachal hills.
On a wintry Christmas Eve in Manali, a suspended IPS officer called Sikander (Rampal) crosses courses with 2 worried youths after a small vehicle mishap. Their confession draws him into a fatal web including 5 college good friends, Vicky, Shaan, Jerry, Jessica, and Burger, who came across Rs 5 crore coming from a callous Southeast Asian criminal activity manager.
As an evident suicide activates a cat-and-mouse examination along with regional inspector Yamini(Priyamani), Sikander needs to untangle a labyrinth of lies, phony identities, and betrayal before the gangsters recover their cash.
Shot when Rs 2000 notes remained in flow, and Arjun was still crazy about bring a movie on his broad shoulders, the secret unfolds similar to browsing a winding mountain roadway in low exposure. The movie script keeps presenting doglegs, implausible cover-ups, vulnerable witnesses, and unexpected betrayals, without providing the audience clear landmarks to follow.
Blind Game (Hindi)
Director: Sangeeth Sivam
Cast: Arjun Rampal, Priyamani, Rohit Chandel, Akash Makhija, Shayank Shukla, Noyrika Bhatejha
Run-through: When 5 buddies in Manali come across Rs 5 crore coming from a callous criminal activity distribute, an auto accident draws suspended IPS officer Sikander into their fatal trick.
Arjun brings weathered gravitas, and Priyamani provides peaceful genuineness to a single-note character, however the young weapons at the centre of the storm fire a series of blanks. Playing the worried quintet, the ensemble has a hard time to raise flat discussion and thin characterisation. Rather of sensation like desperate good friends captured in a deadly trap, they appear like simply awaiting the next plot twist to move them around.
By the time the fact emerges, the psychological and sensible threads have actually ended up being so twisted that the last expose seems like an approximate twist instead of an unavoidable conclusion. In a murder secret, when you safeguard the reality simply for the sake of it, interest dries up before the blood does.
Blind Game is streaming on Zee5.
Released – November 13, 2026 02:50 pm IST
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