Aaryan movie review: Vishnu Vishal is wasted in a forgettable crime procedural | Movie-review News
Aaryan movie review: A serial killer who comes back from the dead to go on a killing spree isn’t a new idea in crime fiction. There are countless paperbacks and airport thrillers that could lay claim to this familiar logline. But Aaryan uses this well-worn premise to craft a “whydunnit,” and that’s about it. Beyond its slick treatment, there isn’t much depth. Essentially an inversion of Ratsasan, to which it has already been unfavourably compared, given the presence of its leading man Vishnu Vishal, Aaryan offers just enough variation in execution to stand apart superficially. Still, it’s not the kind of thriller that sustains engagement through the genre’s usual pleasures of layered revelations or breadcrumb trails leading to a killer. This is the kind of film where the intrigue of the premise and the gradual backfilling of the murderer’s details and modus operandi are meant to substitute for the genuine thrill of uncovering the killer yourself. The film begins promisingly, with a disruption during a live TV program hosted by Nayana (a painfully underused Shraddha …


