Madhavan has engaged himself in a noir crime drama Breathe, which is an Amazon Prime original. Breathe stars Madhavan and Amit Sadh in lead roles, with a story in which they will be playing classic cat and mouse chase to save the one they love. Teaser of Breathe is rather short but Madhavan, walking around like a serial killer says that ti save the one you love (child/wife) one may become a monster if need be. It seems as though someone close to Madhavan’s character died and now he is in a revenge mission against Amit Sadh’s character in order to kill the ones he love.
Madhavan and Sadh are up against one another in a chase where Madhavan seems to be the active chaser and Sadh a passive one. In the end of the teaser a lady died in a car accident who is clearly somebody’s wife, maybe of Madhavans. It is maybe the darkest shade of Madhavan in the world of acting as he has mostly played the lead good guy’s character. Madhavan is known to emerge himself in every role he portrays be it Manu Sharma of Tanu Weds Manu or Vikram from Vikram Vedha.
Sadh was last seen in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s in Raag Desh, where he gave a really strong performance. Sadh has never portrayed a role like such dark in his career so far but he is regarded as one of the better actors in Hindi film industry. Amazon Prime is spreading i’s wings quite vastly in Indian market as they have bought almost all the Hindi films released this year. Amazon also acquired he rights of most Tamil and Telugu films including the cult Arjun Reddy. Amazon has not had the best of luck producing originals as Inside Edge failed to make a mark. Amazon is striving really hard in India but still needs to do a lot to catch up with Netflix, Breathe will premiere on 26 January.