Hi, Today, I am
going to explain an Indian black comedy
crime thriller film called “Andhadhun”.
Spoilers ahead!
A farmer in the outskirts of Pune is being
troubled by a hare. He chases after the
animal with a gun and takes aim at it. A loud
gunshot is heard as the screen goes blank.
Somewhere in Pune lives a talented blind pianist
named Akash. He lives alone, cooks, and cleans
after himself, despite his disability. Akash is
frequently bothered by a kid who thinks he is not
blind. The kid goes far and beyond to try to prove
his theory but hasn’t been successful yet.
One morning, after being troubled by the
kid as always, Akash goes to a music shop.
We find out he plans to move to London in
a month to work in a famous pub. The shop’s
owner thinks he is a great man for not letting
his impaired vision hold him back in life.
Then, we are introduced to a former Bollywood
actor Pramod Sinha. He lives with his young
wife Simi on the posh side of Pune. Despite
often being criticized for the age difference,
they are happily married.
Apart from Simi, Pramod’s only
immediate family is his daughter from his
first marriage, Daani. She doesn’t live with
the couple but visits them once in a while.
One afternoon, Akash is hit by a scooter while
trying to cross the road. The driver is
a girl named Sophie who feels awful even
after helping him up. She invites him to lunch
as an apology. They talk for a while and upon
finding out Akash is a pianist, Sophie invites
him to perform at her father’s restaurant.
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Later that day, Akash returns home and takes
off his glasses, alongside the foggy lenses.
This is when it is revealed that he has been
lying about being blind. He rationalizes it
as a method to make his creative senses
flow. Being blind gives him a vision of
music that he doesn’t see otherwise. Hence, he
has been living a lie for the past few years
and making a career out of it.
The next day, he goes to Sophie’s
restaurant for the first time and plays the
piano. Everyone is thoroughly impressed,
mostly because they think he is blind.
Coincidentally, Pramod is also at the restaurant,
equally impressed by Akash. His and Simi’s third
wedding anniversary is in a few days and he wishes
to surprise her with live music. Akash promises
to come to his apartment to play for them.
Because the actor wants the day to be a surprise,
he lies to Simi that he will be out of town.
Simi is annoyed but she understands
that her husband is a busy man.
While returning home from work, Sophie has
to stay at Akash’s home because of the rain.
He pretends to not look when she changes into
his clothes in front of him. The two have felt
the sparks between them in the past few days
they have been together. Soon, they begin to
make out and spend the night together.
In the following scene, Akash is outside
Pramod’s apartment. Simi opens the door and asks
him to go away because her husband is not home.
Akash insists that he was supposed
to be here but she doesn’t listen.
However, when an old neighbor sees them, Simi
feels uncomfortable and lets Akash in.
He gets to work and is enjoying himself but
that is until he notices Pramod’s dead body
on the floor. The pianist is shocked to
his core but he doesn’t stop playing.
Simi disregards her husband’s dead body, thinking
that since Akash cannot see she has enough time
to hide it. A while later, he makes his way to
the bathroom and gets a full view of the dead
man. While keeping cool, he enters the bathroom,
only to see that a man is hiding inside. Akash
pees in front of him and returns to the piano,
without giving away that he is panicking.
A flashback shows us that Simi and the stranger
were having an affair behind Parmod’s back.
On being caught, they panicked and shot
him dead. While Akash continues playing,
the killers clean up the mess and put
Pramod’s dead body in a suitcase.
Then, Simi pretends to be talking to
Pramod, trying to make it seem like he
has returned home. Akash plays along
and leaves after saying goodbye.
Outside, he has to sit down for some time to take
everything in and decide what he must do next.
He is approached by a local lottery ticket
seller named Sakhu. She offers to help him by
calling him a rickshaw. The rickshaw driver Murli
recognizes Akash as a regular customer and brings
him to the police station at his request.
Akash has decided to tell the police what he saw
but seconds before doing so, the head police
inspector Manohar arrives. He is the same
man who was Simi’s accomplice in the murder.
Akash freezes mid-sentence and pretends to be
complaining about his cat’s murder.
Manohar recognizes him instantly and
accompanies him to his house to see if the dead
cat story is true. He also wants to make sure
that Akash is actually blind and doesn’t know
about Pramod’s death. To do so, he throws a
knife at him but Akash doesn’t flinch.
After the inspector leaves, Akash goes to
the restaurant he works in. He knows that he has
to act normal in order to not be suspected. Simi
also comes to the restaurant, casually telling
people that her husband is out for work.
Then the next morning, Pramod’s death is
broadcasted on news as a case of robbery.
He was found inside his car by a bridge
with his watch and jewelry missing.
Manohar takes the case into his hands to make
sure the truth never comes out. For investigation,
Pramod’s daughter Daani, Simi, and Akash are
called to the police station. Daani seeks
reassurance from Simi, unaware that she killed her
father. Meanwhile, Akash refrains from telling the
truth, scared of ending up like Pramod.
At the funeral, their neighbor Mrs. D’SA,
who had seen Akash come to the house, approaches
a policeman. She had been keeping an eye on the
neighbor’s apartment on the day of death and
knows that something about the story is off.
Simi thinks the old woman will be a problem if
she digs into the case. Hence, the next time
they are alone, she pushes Mrs. D’SA off the
balcony and kills her. To Akash’s misfortune,
he witnesses the incident and has to pretend to
not have seen anything for the second time.
He quickly rushes home and calls Sophie,
planning to tell her everything. What he
doesn’t know is that the annoying neighbor kid
is taking a video of him at the same time.
Before Sophie, Simi comes to his house, offering
him sweets from Pramod’s funeral. Akash keeps
his guard up and invites her in.
He makes coffee for her and turns around
to see Simi wearing a ghost face mask. She wants
to startle him and catch him in the lie but he
doesn’t give her a reaction. As they chat, Simi
points a gun at him which makes Akash come clean.
He swears that he won’t tell anyone about
the murder and move to London right away.
Suddenly, he feels dizzy and falls
unconscious. It turns out Simi had
drugged the sweet that she offered him.
When Sophie comes to meet him, the kid shows
her the video that proves Akash is not
blind. She furiously knocks on his door,
only to be received by a naked Simi. She pretends
to have slept with Akash who is still unconscious.
A heartbroken Sophie storms off after that.
Akash only wakes up hours later with a strange
feeling in his eyes. He tries opening them
and finds out he cannot see anything. He has
been actually blinded by Simi so even if he tries
telling the truth, people won’t believe him.
He calls Sophie for help but she blocks his
number, leaving him with no options.
Meanwhile, the events have caused a dent in
Manohar and Simi’s relationship. He is mad
at her for not killing Akash instead of just
blinding him. Simi argues she is not a serial
killer, sending him to finish the job.
When it gets dark, the policeman breaks in
and tries to strangle the pianist to death. Akash
struggles and manages to escape after hurting him.
However, he has difficulty navigating through
the neighborhood after going blind.
In the morning, he wakes up in a hospital
surrounded by Dr. Swami, the rickshaw driver
Murli and the lottery ticket seller Sakhu.
They found him in the streets last night and
brought him to the hospital. Dr. Swami makes
an appointment with an optometrist at Akash’s
request. His first priority is to get his eyes
checked, then to flee the country. However, hours
pass but he is never taken to the doctor.
Outside, Sakhu, Murli and the doctor discuss
the amount of money they are about to
earn. They are planning to sell Akash’s
organ in the black market since he is an
easy target with no family members.
When they put him on a hospital bed, Akash
hears them talking about surgery and panics.
They restrain him, making it evident that
they are planning to do something bad.
They sedate him but before passing out, Akash
mentions that Sakhu has a Lord Shiva tattoo
on her arm. The three are shocked because no one
ever told him about the tattoo. They think it is a
sign from god and decide to withdraw the plan.
Upon waking up, Akash is told he was about to
be killed. The group asks him
if he is actually blind. Akash
affirms and suggests a better way for them to
make money. He hopes that they get the money,
they will spare his life, and let him go.
Then, he tells them everything about Manohar,
Simi, and how they killed her husband. But,
he adds that the murderers have a million
bucks that they can share with the group if
blackmailed. Their eyes glow with greed and
they decide to help Akash after that.
In the following scene, Simi returns home
to see Akash playing the piano with Daani.
She is shocked at the audacity of the guy
and nervous about him revealing the truth. Hence,
she quickly calls Manohar and asks him to come to
a location. After that, she offers Akash a
ride to get him to Manohar and kill him.
On their way, Akash asks her for ten lakhs
rupees to keep his mouth shut so he can get
a cornea transplant. She refuses to give him
any money but Akash already has a backup plan.
Murli’s rickshaw blocks their car and Akash
sedates Simi when she is distracted. Then,
the group abducts her, hoping to ask Manohar
for a huge ransom in exchange for her life.
Next, Akash calls Manohar’s wife Rasika and
tells her everything. She is asked to give
them million rupees by tomorrow if she doesn’t
want her husband’s reputation to be ruined.
Rasika, who has anger issues, loses her
mind. She threatens to kill her husband
and only stops when he gets a call. The
police found Simi’s car on a bridge with
her shoes and wallet. By the looks of it,
she seems to have committed the unthinkable.
Rasika finally calms down and thinks
of a way to solve the problem.
Meanwhile, Simi retaliates
and refuses to cooperate.
To scare her, the doctor draws her blood and
threatens to sell her kidney for money.
Later that day, Manohar arrives with a case
full of money as ransom. As they are about to
execute the next step of the plan, Sakhu and
Murli betray Akash. They tie him to a chair
and run outside to go through with the plan
on their own. They do not trust Akash and
want all the money for themselves.
Ironically, Akash and Simi are locked
in the same room as hostages. Simi laughs at the
absurdity of the situation, calling him a loser.
Akash, in turn, says that she should be the
most scared because, at this point, she is a
burden to Manohar. The best way for him to get
out of this situation would be to kill her.
At the same time, the doctor is
going through Simi’s blood report.
His face lights up at something mentioned on
the paper and he quickly goes to meet her.
In the hideout, Murli manages to get the bag of
money but Manohar shoots him before he can run
away. Sakhu freaks out and traps the inspector
in the elevator, stealing the bag right after.
Then, she brings Murli to the hospital but
he is too far gone to be saved. She also
finds out the money she received is fake.
In the meantime, Simi unties the rope around
her hands and attacks Akash to kill him but
is stopped by Dr. Swami. They get into a
struggle that ends when they knock her out.
The doctor puts her inside the trunk and drives
to Mumbai with Akash. On the way, he explains
that Simi has a B RH negative blood group which
is extremely rare. A wealthy man’s daughter is in
desperate need of a liver from someone like Simi.
If they sell her organ, they will earn
more than fifty million bucks.
Akash can do whatever he wants with half of
it, even get a cornea transplant. However,
he doesn’t feel right because he will
have to kill Simi for her liver.
The scene abruptly cuts to two years
later. Sophie is on a vacation in Europe,
living her best life after forgetting everything
that happened with Akash. But the past follows
her when she sees a poster of him outside
a pub. He is playing the piano at the pub,
as he had envisioned years ago. Sophie confronts
him and he tells her everything that happened.
A flashback shows us Swami and Akash driving to
Mumbai with Simi in the trunk. The doctor comes
out of the car to give her another dosage of
tranquilizer. But he is attacked and killed in
the process. Then, Simi asks Akash to get out
of the car and starts driving toward him.
She is seconds away from hitting him when
a gunshot is heard. It is the same noise we
heard at the beginning of the film when
the farmer was trying to kill the hare.
The said hare jumps on the windshield, making Simi
swerve and crash. She dies in the accident.
Akash takes the next bus to Mumbai and comes to
London with the help of a friend. Even since then,
he has been working in the pub.
He invites Sophie to one of his shows
but she has to catch a flight the next
morning. They promise to keep in touch
and go their separate ways. In the last scene,
Akash hits a can while walking down a street, leaving us wondering if he can still see.
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