Ussamah Habib

A Tale of Two Unreal Men (spoiler alert) One of the more unsettling and less talked about aspects of the film is the portrayal of the villain. He is depicted as merciless in his crimes, yet surprisingly compassionate towards his family. The film doesn’t provide a clear motivation for his actions—there’s no caste angle, no preference for specific types of victims, and no backstory of poverty or hardship. Instead, he is shown as a man with an adorable daughter, a loving wife from a love marriage, and a business, making his capacity for such heinous acts difficult to believe. When his wife discovers that he’s responsible for the brutal killing of a mother and daughter, she is devastated, lamenting that he was the man she sacrificed her relationship with her family for. On the other hand, there’s the barber, who lost his wife at a young age, adopted a criminal’s daughter without revealing the truth to her, and hasn’t remarried, even though it might have been better for them both. He’s never set foot in a gym or undergone any training, yet somehow he’s stronger than a crowd—a point other reviewers have noted as well. He has no idea who the perpetrators are, making him seem just as unreal. It seems the writer wanted to punish the villain in the most severe way possible for his crimes against women, eventually deciding that having him unwittingly enable the rape of his daughter would be a fitting end—one that drives him to throw himself from the tallest building in despair.