'Mirage' OTT release: When will Jeethu Joseph-Asif Ali thriller come out on streaming?

Jeethu Joseph's thriller Mirage will come out on streaming a month after its theatrical release date, informed SonyLIV. The Asif Ali-Aparna Balamurali movie will be available for streaming from October 19 on the platform.

In its review of the film, THE WEEK wrote: "There's the sense that this film was born out of an urge to make a film with as many twists as possible, so many that it would make even the heads of M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan spin. Because even they wouldn't have dreamt of cramming this level of absurdity even in their weakest films. What we see in Mirage is the extreme case of self-indulgent filmmaking. It feels like something that came out of the early 2000s, when Malayalam cinema was going through its worst phase."

The review further added that the film's script felt like a "leftover" of the ones written by "B. Unnikrishnan or AK Saajan. It feels like something that was made to do someone a favour as soon as possible. But this is not the kind of favour that writers like Salim-Javed or Crazy Mohan delivered in their peak phase. This feels like the kind of favour that someone did half-heartedly, in a rush. Of course, these are assumptions. I don't know what exactly led to the creation of this... abomination." 

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Written by Srinivasan Abrol and Jeethu Joseph from a story by Aparna R. Tarakad, the film was shot by Satheesh Kurup and edited by Vinayakh. It has music by Vishnu Shyam.

Mirage marked the second collaboration of Asif Ali after Kooman, an investigative thriller in which the actor played a flawed police officer.

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