I watched this the first time when I was just 12 or 13, and I really did not notice all the disgusting misogyny in it back then. The bus scene in the opening is too long and subpar compared to the rest of the movie. There really was no point in showing an entire bus ride for the sake of rolling the opening credits. The script is mediocre and every line seems to compete to sound more unnatural than the previous one. PEOPLE DO NOT TALK LIKE THIS!!! For a 2013 movie, the scene transitions are bad and abrupt, and look like a 13-year-old's work out of a shady free fx app online. There is absolutely no comedy in what the writer deemed to be comedic and it is cringey as hell. Every second of the first half has aged like shit. There is an immense amount of utterly unnecessary misogyny in the movie, ranging from glorification of horny men who come home just to have sex with their wives, and the mindset that a "girl's" duty after marriage is to look after her husband and children while staying in the kitchen and tending to household chores and never complaining about her mere responsibility, to the apparent "benevolence" of not taking a dowry. The most disgusting part is that none of this adds any value to the story. It merely drags the runtime and stretches it into a pile of mess. For a middle-class man whose character in this (otherwise 120-minute) movie needs only to be highlighted as a parsimonious-loving-dad-caring-husband, the horny and the misogyny should have been avoided. If this film was trying to be woke by portraying the sexual nature of humans, it failed successfully. If they wrote draft after draft, then filmed and edited it all, and still decided to keep it, then as a viewer I have every right to trash it and knock off a large share of my rating solely for the regressive mindset. All that being said, the rest of the writing, from the occurrence of the incident is simply brilliant. I particularly enjoyed Sahadevan's wickedness (for instance, the sharply tailored mirror scene at the dhaba, where he mentions the yellow Maruti Zen). It showed the cast's diverse range. The nuances are so meticulously crafted that a first-time watcher could possibly not be more baffled. The latter half of the movie still remains a thriller which cannot be topped easily, however, the former, unfortunately, remains a pile of trash that cannot be 'bottomed' easily, or at all.

Came without any hype,Became the biggest hit of that time.Still remembering that moment.One of the best thrillers of India

One of the best thrillers in a long time. Highly recommended.