DNA Movie Review
on Jul 19, 2025
Cast: Atharvaa, Nimisha Sajayan, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Chetan, Manasa Choudhary, Ramesh Thilak, Balaji Sakthivel, Viji Chandrasekhar, Riythvika, Bose Venkat
Crew:
Written by Nelson Venkatesan, Athisha Vino
Music by Sathyaprakash, Sreekanth Hariharan, Pravin Saivi, Sahi Siva, Anal Akash, Ghibran Vaibodha
Cinematography by Parthiban
Editing by V. J. Sabu Joseph
Directed by Nelson Venkatesan
Produced by Jayanthi Ambethkumar, S. Ambethkumar
Atharvaa has been struggling recently with his films not living up to their potential. He finally received good word of mouth for his DNA. Nimisha Vijayan, who has been choosing good scripts acted in this movie in leading lady role. Interestingly, Telugu version of this film, My Baby, released just one day before its OTT release, yesterday. Let's discuss about the movie in detail.
Plot:
Anand (Atharvaa) gets addicted to drugs and alochol as his ex-lover Saranya (Manasa) gets married to someone else leaving him. His father doesn't like this transistion in his life and starts to hate. His younger brother also dislikes him as he is being a hurdle to get married to his love interest. Aanand reveals why he became so reclusive in his life, as Saranya committed suicide unable to handle the torture of her husband.
Family sends him to an ashram to recover. On the other hand, Divya (Nimisha Sajayan) due to her sensitive mentality, appears to be a mentally challenged person. For Anand's brother, his family takes the decision to get Anand married to Divya. He accepts despite his friends' objections of her condition. Divya and Anand construct a happy life for themselves. But their baby gets exchanged and abducted immediately after birth. While no one believe Divya, Anand starts the investigation for their baby. What will he do? Can they find their real baby and real parents of the baby with them? Watch the movie to know more.
Analysis:
Atharvaa did well in this role that needs him to play an addict and then a recovered person happy with his wife. Even though he did well, the writing for his character seems too simple as the investigative part starts. The beginning looses its effectivity due to this. Nimisha Vijayan, once again, delivered her best where she needed to balance the over sensitive person with normalcy. Again, investigative part undermines her character arc, too.
All others have been able to do well in their roles. Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub did well in his role but it seemed too simple for a person of his capability. Even for story, his role seems to be underdeveloped and too common for a protagonist. It seems to have been too easy for him to construct such a big nexus and investigation part doesn't really give the vibes of the layered approach that the makers talk about him constructing for his network.
DNA suffers with such simplified writing that doesn't really take up detailing seriously. The lead characters don't really go through much changes due to the incident in their lives. Everything feels handled too lightly with investigation part taking over everything. Even several fights haven't been dealt with such impact. Still, the director could engage audiences into the next scene.
It is just that they did not really live up to the potential the film had. Not to compare but Maharaja has thrilling elements laced throughout for a thriller with emotional highs. DNA misses out on such highs but due to its engaging narrative even with flaws, the movie succeeds to an extent in holding audiences interest. The makers could have made it easily even more impactful thriller with better writing. Still, it is watchable.
Bottomline:
DNA could have been much impactful film but ends up being an okay engaging one.
Rating: 2.75/5
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