I was not proven wrong in watching Kashyap’s latest film after last year’s disaster Bombay Velvet. Raman Raghav 2.0 showcases Siddiqui at his creepiest best, where he walks around the streets of Mumbai with a wheel changing wrench and later just an iron rod as his murder weapons, portraying a copycat serial killer.
Inspired by the original Raman Raghav who menaced Bombay in the 1960s with at least 41 murders and was later sentenced to life imprisonment, Kashyap’s film, which he co-scripted with Vasan Bala, has the sense of deja vu.
Yes, we have seen this Siddiqui before. But more important, Kashyap has already taken us on this journey before, the underbelly of mankind, or at least with characters spread out in Mumbai. There are tones of Raman Raghav 2.0 that were already present in That Girl With Yellow Boots and Kashyap’s 2013 film Ugly.