A strangely hollow game

INTERIORITY. It's a character's private world, their unspoken thoughts, the bulk of what makes their personality, what gives them life. When there is interiority, you begin to understand a character—truly.

- SUDHIR SRINIVASAN

INTERIORITY. It's a character's private world, their unspoken thoughts, the bulk of what makes their personality, what gives them life. When there is interiority, you begin to understand a character—truly. Their thoughts, their motivations; you begin to get them in theory first, but slowly, you begin to sync with them. This isn't necessarily about attachment—it's about emotional union, even with those whose decisions you might never make or agree with. I fear Test, for all its ambition, for all its commentary on obsession, for all its felt performances, still struggles to generate this crucial interiority.

Perhaps that's why Arjun, a fading superstar cricketer played by Siddharth, feels so unchanged, so incomprehensibly still—despite the storm around him. There's a moment where he does something unthinkable, something deeply against his grain, and yet, the moment drifts past us. We don't sit with his internal struggle, we don't feel the weight of it. We don't quite see him shake under it.