After the OTT arrival of Irumudi, many have asked: What are the police doing in the village when school girls go missing and other suspicious incidents are taking place? This is the kind of question one is not supposed to ask while watching a revenge thriller, director Shiva Nirvana has suggested.
In his latest interview, the director shared that he didn't want the audience to expect a police investigation, which is why he didn't show the police department getting into questioning or rolling out an inquiry. The aim was to set up for Ravi Teja's Trinadha's vengeance from the beginning.
Many wouldn't be convinced by Nirvana's explanation. It's convenient to show, say, a check post but not an active involvement of the police department. If not for justice, cops do get involved just to extract bribes from powerful people in real life. Many of them salivate at the prospect of a heinous crime coming to their notice. Their interest in law and order is rarely sincere.
That said, one can see where Shiva Nirvana's thought process is coming from. Had a couple of cops been shown to be ordering an investigation but nothing much happened on that front (because Irumudi is not a police procedural or an investigative thriller), reviews would have wondered why the investigation didn't advance in the film. Filmmakers, therefore, make a cost-benefit analysis. When 80% of the audience won't miss the police and wait for the hero to become a saviour, why even remind them of the existence of the police in the first place? Thinking logically keeping in view the rest 20% would be a bad idea. Understand why our films have remained the same for decades?
