Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru To Forensic, 5 South Thrillers To Binge Watch This Week – News18

Vikram Vedha is directed by Pushkar and Gayathri.

Vikram Vedha is directed by Pushkar and Gayathri.

Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru, aka, D-16 is a Tamil neo-noir crime thriller featuring Rahman and Ashwin Kkumar and others.

Suspense thrillers often drive viewers to the edge of their seats and keep them hooked to the plot of the movie. Movies like Drishyam and Bhool Bhulaiyaa were a few nail-biting suspense thrillers that gained a lot of attention. If you love to watch movies of this genre, then here are a few films you should bookmark right away and not forget to watch them.

Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru

Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru, aka, D-16 is a Tamil neo-noir crime thriller featuring Rahman and Ashwin Kkumar and others. It was released in 2016 and emerged to be a blockbuster hit. Such is its hype that it is soon to get its Bollywood remake with Varun Dhawan in the lead. The movie centres around a police officer named Deepak met with an accident during a case investigation. Years later, he revisits the incident while narrating the story to his friend’s son.

RangiTaranga

RangiTaranga is a Kannada mystery thriller written and directed by Anup Bhandari. The movie features actors like Nirup Bhandari, Radhika Chetan, Saikumar and Avantika Shetty. The movie is about Indu and her writer husband visiting Indu’s ancestral house after she has nightmares. The plot thickens after a few unnatural occurrences which reveals her husband’s forgotten past.

Maayavan

Directed by CV Kumar, Maayavan is a mystery thriller revolving around Kumarana, a policeman, who investigates mysterious murders by a serial killer. As he delves deeper into the case, it becomes more complicated as he understands the killer’s pattern. The fiction thriller stars Sundeep Kishan and Lavanya Tripathi. It also features Jackie Shroff, Daniel Balaji, Mime Gopi, R. Amarendran, Bagavathi Perumal, and Jayaprakash in supporting roles.

Vikram Vedha

Pushkar–Gayathri’s Vikram Vedha is yet another neo-noir movie starring Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan. It is a Bollywood remake of the Tamil movie of the same name. It is jointly produced by YNOT Studios, Friday Filmworks, Reliance Entertainment, T-Series Films and Jio Studios. It is the story of a righteous police officer named Vikram who is on a hunt to nab the dreaded gangster Vedha Betal. But, Vedha voluntarily surrenders and narrates a story that sets the story in motion.

Forensic

This Malayalam psycho-thriller is written and directed by Akhil Paul and Anas Khan. It stars Tovino Thomas, Mamta Mohandas, Saiju Kurup, Renji Panicker, and Reba Monica John. It narrates the story of a murderer who is on a killing spree, while Samuel, a medical-legal advisor unleashes his forensic skills to find the truth.