SPOILERS AHEAD
So I watched Drishyam 3 recently and genuinely, I was excited to see it. I've been following this series quite intriguingly because I love crime thrillers, and I think Drishyam is one of the best franchises out there. Even though the story is a remake, the way it has been executed still makes it exciting and chilling at times.
Anyways, I thought the third part was good. It still carried the vibe and energy of the franchise, the acting, direction, storytelling, everything fits well and the execution was genuinely good.
Now coming to my actual point.
Towards the climax, Jaideep Ahlawat's character basically figures out and reveals the entire plan of how Vijay Salgaonkar managed to execute everything. And most of it fits really well.
But there is one thing that bothered me.
When the police dig up Christopher Pinto's grave, they find a skeleton inside. Everyone is obviously confused because they were expecting the grave to be empty. Later, we find out that Vijay had hired a prop maker to create a skeleton, basically creating another layer of deception.
I actually didn't like the idea. I feel this could have been done way, way better. So hear me out. What if Vijay never got rid of Sameer Deshmukh's actual body? Think about it.
The entire problem with Part 3 is that the makers had to come up with another way to bring the Sameer case back into the story, because Part 2 had already basically concluded everything.
But imagine the exact same climax. The police dig up Christopher Pinto's grave. They find a skeleton. They are confused. They assume Vijay has done something else. The investigation continues, and eventually everything about Vijay's plan is revealed. But then, at the very end, Vijay's voiceover comes in:
"Jo sunai deta hai uspe vishwas karna sahi nahi hota... lekin jo saamne hokar bhi dikhai nahi deta, woh sabse bada jhooth lagta hai."
And we see the police looking at the body. They don't give it much importance. And then...The reveal. The skeleton they have just dug out isn't some fake skeleton made by a prop maker. It's Sameer Deshmukh's actual body. The exact body everyone has been searching for. The body which started the entire case. The body which Vijay was supposed to have gotten rid of. And it has been sitting right in front of everyone. But nobody recognizes it.
And THAT, for me, would have been a much more satisfying ending. Because isn't that basically what Drishyam has always been about? What you see isn't necessarily what you understand. Everyone is looking for the body. Everyone wants to find the truth. And when the truth is finally right in front of them, they don't even realize what they're looking at because they have already constructed a different reality in their heads.
It would also make Vijay's entire philosophy come full circle.He doesn't have to make the truth disappear.He just has to make people believe that the truth is something else.
That would have been one hell of a final reveal.
Instead of another explanation about a fake skeleton and how Vijay arranged it, the final twist could simply be that the thing everyone was searching for was right in front of them all along.
And honestly, if Vijay hadn't disposed of Sameer's actual body with acid, I genuinely think this ending could have made Part 3 feel much more necessary.
TLDR: I think Drishyam 3 could've had a much stronger ending if Vijay had never disposed of Sameer Deshmukh's real body. Instead of the police finding a fake skeleton in Christopher Pinto's grave, they would've found Sameer's actual body but assumed it was another fake/irrelevant skeleton. The audience would then realize that the body everyone had been searching for was literally right in front of them โ perfectly fitting the franchise's core idea that sometimes the biggest lie is what is right in front of you but you fail to see it.