r/plotholes • u/NumberOne230564 • 12d ago
MAJOR loophole in Drishyam 3/ Drishyam the conclusion. Spoiler
⚠️!!!THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!
I think I found a pretty big loophole in Drishyam 3 regarding the skeleton.
The skeleton found at the college was DNA-matched with Pinto's parents, which is how they established that the skeleton was Pinto's. So the police already have something extremely valuable: they have scientifically established that Pinto's actual remains are outside the grave.
Then they find a skeleton inside Pinto's coffin.
But why does that automatically mean the skeleton in the coffin is Pinto?
It could be an idol, or it could be someone else's body. Because the skeleton outside has actually been DNA-proven to be Pinto, while the one inside the coffin hasn't been proven to be Pinto.
In fact, they don't even necessarily need to dig the grave up again. The fact that Pinto's actual skeleton has already been identified somewhere else creates a direct contradiction.
If someone says, "But the DNA evidence was obtained illegally because they secretly took the parents' fingerprints/DNA," then what about the fact that the police also trespassed to bug the house? That's trespassing, eavesdropping, etc. Yet the information obtained from that operation was still used as part of the investigation.
And this reminds me of something from Drishyam 2 itself.
They could have potentially used the bedroom conversation as evidence. Meera literally says that she doesn't know where the body is and asks Vijay where the body is. Vijay doesn't react with "What are you talking about?" or deny knowing anything. He just says that he's not going to talk about it.
That could have been incredibly damaging.
But they didn't simply use the recording because it was obtained illegally. Instead, the movie built a legal/evidentiary route around it using other things.
So why couldn't they do the same thing with the Pinto DNA?
And yes, I understand that the community might not allow the police to simply dig up the grave again. But with a Supreme Court order, they could potentially do it anyway.
More importantly, they don't even need to do that.
The fact that Pinto's body/skeleton is already established to be at the college means that the remains in the grave cannot simultaneously be Pinto's actual skeleton.
It's a contradiction:
Pinto's skeleton is outside. (PROVEN)
Pinto's skeleton is supposedly inside the coffin. (it's not proved. A SKELETON IS INSIDE, which isn't even real)
Both can't be true.
And honestly, I think that's the bigger issue. The movie doesn't really need to prove what's inside the coffin. It only needs to establish that Pinto's actual remains are somewhere else. Once that is established, the skeleton in the coffin immediately becomes questionable.
For a Drishyam movie, where the entire point is that the police should be thinking several steps ahead, I'm surprised this wasn't addressed.
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u/Emotional-North-6617 6d ago
I think the court would side with Vikay and feel police is just trying to pin blame on Vijay .. by forcibly obtaining positive DNA ( public sympathy would mean actual DNA evidence gets disregarded). Plus he proved that he was at home on 23rd night - another big point in his favour.
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u/OnTheRocksAgain23 4d ago
1. The DNA test and the two skeletons
The police have a skeleton identified through DNA as Christopher Pinto's, which is in police custody. Yet another skeleton is found in Pinto's coffin, apparently supporting Vijay's story.
The logical problem: Why doesn't the court order a proper forensic examination, including DNA testing, of the skeleton in the coffin? Merely confirming that a skeleton is present does not prove that it belongs to Pinto.
Why it weakens the plot: The discrepancy should trigger further investigation. The story relies on the authorities not pursuing an obvious forensic question.
2. The fake alibi recorded in advance
Vijay arranges an audio recording intended to establish his presence at home, even though he anticipates that the police will later investigate his whereabouts.
The logical problem: How could he predict exactly what the police would investigate, which recording they would rely on, and how they would interpret it?
Why it weakens the plot: Planning an alibi is believable, but the plan depends on too many future events unfolding exactly as Vijay expects. An audio recording also does not, by itself, prove that he was physically present.
3. Discovering the microphones and the incriminating recordings
If Vijay discovers that the police have planted microphones in his house, he should realise that conversations about the original crime could be recorded and used against his family.
The logical problems:
- Why did he allow Nandini to discuss the dead body with the neighbour, Meera, if he knew the house was being monitored?
- If he discovered the microphones later, why didn't he review the available recordings to assess what the police already knew?
- If the recordings contained incriminating conversations, how did he account for them in his later plan?
An important qualification: Discovering the microphones would not necessarily give Vijay access to recordings already stored by the police. He could disable a device without being able to delete the police's copies.
Why it weakens the plot: The film does not adequately explain how Vijay accounts for the risk posed by recordings that could undermine his carefully constructed defence.
Overall conclusion
All three doubts concern the same underlying issue: the film portrays Vijay as an exceptionally meticulous planner, but his success depends on the police overlooking obvious investigative steps and on his own plan working almost perfectly.
His strategies are clever in principle. The weakness is the lack of convincing explanations for why forensic testing, scrutiny of the alibi, and examination of the surveillance recordings do not expose the inconsistencies.
The distinction is between a clever crime story and a logically airtight one. These gaps make the ending less convincing as a realistic police investigation.
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u/lordofabyss 3d ago
The idea that the skeleton in forensic lab is of pinto CANNOT be used as evidence as it was obtained illegally
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u/NumberOne230564 3d ago
Read the whole post for god's sake. They obtained the conversations illegally as well but did things to make them presentable in the court
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u/anonymous_x04 5d ago
How did he put the fake skeleton in the coffin in the first place without damaging the cement tombstone. Even if we assume he made a new one, it would be pretty obvious that the cement is new
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u/dixieandnoah 11d ago
Plus, how did nobody notice freshly moved soil around an old grave, and WHY did nobody notice new cement slabs over an old grave wtf