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Spoiler Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Drishyam: The Conclusion.
For years, Vijay Salgaonkar has survived because the police could never turn what they suspected into something they could prove.
Then Drishyam: The Conclusion introduces a dangerous new idea.
What if Sam’s body was gone, but his DNA was not?
That possibility gives the police a new path back into a case Vijay thought he had buried years ago.
And it explains why the new investigation is so threatening.
The police no longer need Vijay to confess.
They may not even need to find Sam’s original body.
They only need something biological that can reconnect Sam to the place where Vijay once hid him.
Why Does Rajveer Think Sam’s DNA Could Still Exist?
The key realization comes from SP Rajveer Singh Tomar.
Sam was not simply buried somewhere remote.
His body had once been hidden beneath the police station itself.
That means Sam remained at that location for a significant period before Vijay’s later moves complicated the investigation.
Rajveer realizes that this creates another possibility:
Sam may have left biological evidence behind.
Current audience discussions specifically identify this realization as the starting point of the renewed threat against Vijay. Reddit
That changes the game.
Until now, much of Vijay’s strategy has revolved around controlling where investigators look and what they believe happened to Sam’s remains.
DNA is different.
It does not care about Vijay’s story.
If investigators can recover biological material connected to Sam and authenticate it, they may be able to rebuild the case from physical evidence.
Why Is DNA More Dangerous Than Another Witness?
Vijay is extremely good at defeating human evidence.
Witnesses can remember incorrectly.
Timelines can be reconstructed.
People can be manipulated.
Stories can be challenged.
But DNA appears objective.
If biological material recovered from a relevant location matches Sam or his biological parents, investigators suddenly have something much harder for Vijay to explain away.
That is why the new threat feels different.
The police are no longer asking only:
“Where is Sam’s body?”
They are effectively asking:
“What did Sam leave behind?”
That is a much harder question to bury.
Didn’t Vijay Already Solve the Body Problem?
This is where the previous films matter.
Vijay has repeatedly understood that a murder investigation depends not only on knowing someone is dead, but on connecting physical evidence to a specific crime.
That is why the treatment of Sam’s remains has always been so important to the franchise.
The Conclusion deliberately returns to that weakness.
Even if Vijay has manipulated the body evidence, a DNA trail can potentially expose inconsistencies between the remains the police possess and the person they believe those remains belong to.
That possibility has already generated confusion among viewers.
In one Reddit discussion, a viewer asked why the skeleton connected to the police-station plot was not simply DNA-matched with the parents. Another respondent argued that the relevant skeleton did match its actual parents, identifying it as Pintu rather than Sam. Reddit
That distinction is crucial.
Because the problem is no longer just:
Is this Sam’s skeleton?
It becomes:
Whose skeleton is it—and what does that reveal about Vijay’s manipulation?
Who Is Pintu, and Why Does His Skeleton Matter?
This is where the DNA issue becomes much more dangerous.
The ending involves another set of remains connected to Pintu Fernandes.
If those remains can ultimately be identified through DNA, investigators could potentially establish that the skeleton they are dealing with is not Sam’s.
And once that happens, another question immediately follows:
Why was someone else’s skeleton involved in a case about Sam?
That would not automatically prove every step of Vijay’s plan.
But it could expose the existence of a substitution.
And once investigators establish that evidence was deliberately substituted, Vijay’s carefully constructed version of events becomes much harder to defend.
One current ending analysis specifically identifies the unresolved DNA status of Pintu’s skeleton as a remaining vulnerability after Vijay’s apparent victory. TellyReviews
So Why Doesn’t the DNA Evidence Finally Destroy Vijay?
Because DNA can identify biological material.
It cannot automatically explain the entire story around it.
This distinction is central to Drishyam.
Suppose investigators establish that a skeleton belongs to Pintu.
That answers one question:
Who is this?
It does not automatically answer all the others:
Who moved the body?
When was it moved?
Who knew about it?
Where is Sam?
Can Vijay be directly connected to the substitution?
Can investigators prove that connection in court?
Vijay’s strategy has always depended on creating distance between what probably happened and what can actually be proved.
DNA can narrow that distance.
But it does not necessarily eliminate it.
This Is Why the Police Are So Close This Time
That makes The Conclusion different from simply repeating the first movie.
The investigators have learned.
They understand that Vijay can manipulate witnesses and timelines.
They understand that physical remains matter.
And Rajveer begins attacking the case through something Vijay cannot simply talk his way out of:
forensic evidence.
For perhaps the first time, Vijay faces an investigation capable of reaching underneath the story he created.
That is why the DNA angle matters even though Vijay ultimately survives the immediate legal threat.
It demonstrates that his old tricks are becoming less secure.
Every new investigation gets closer to the physical truth.
Does the DNA Create a Plot Hole?
Some viewers clearly think there are unresolved questions.
Reddit discussions have already focused on why particular skeletons were or were not DNA-tested, while another viewer questioned whether investigators should have noticed physical signs associated with the body-switching element of the climax. Reddit
Those are reasonable questions because Drishyam has trained its audience to examine tiny details.
A normal thriller might get away with saying:
Vijay switched the evidence.
A Drishyam viewer immediately asks:
When? How? What about DNA? What about the ground? What would forensic investigators notice?
That scrutiny is actually evidence of how the franchise has taught its audience to watch.
We have learned to behave like investigators.
The DNA Evidence Reveals Vijay’s Real Problem
Vijay’s greatest enemy may no longer be Meera.
It may not even be Rajveer.
It is time.
The longer the case remains alive, the more forensic methods, witnesses and overlooked pieces of evidence can create new ways to examine the past.
Vijay can manipulate a story.
He can anticipate investigators.
He can exploit what people see and hear.
But physical evidence can survive longer than anyone’s memory.
That is what makes Rajveer’s DNA realization so dangerous.
Vijay buried the crime.
He manipulated the evidence.
He built believable versions of reality around his family.
But he cannot guarantee that every microscopic trace of the past disappeared with Sam’s body.
So What Was the New DNA Evidence Against Vijay?
The important new development is not simply that police suddenly possess a magical DNA test proving Vijay killed Sam.
They don’t.
The threat is more subtle.
Rajveer realizes that Sam’s long burial beneath the police station may have left recoverable biological evidence, giving investigators another forensic route into the old case. Meanwhile, the identity of the skeletons and the possibility of DNA identification threaten to expose how physical evidence has been manipulated. Reddit
And that may be the most dangerous kind of evidence Vijay has ever faced.
A witness can be fooled.
A conversation can be staged.
A memory can be rewritten.
But DNA does not need to remember what happened.
It only needs to survive.
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