The cinematography holds you until a very simplistic reveal. It tries to compensate for a poor plot with strong visuals. But here is an alternative if you have already seen this movie:
The story as it was: There was enough screen time given to Anil's parallel story for him to be just a witness to the conclusion of Vardhan's story. Not to add Anil's story is just not addressed and could have been totally absent for Vardhan's story to be told.
Alternative: Vardhan should have been troubled by the lack of remorse on the completely nonchalant dudes who had so gruesomely murdered his wife. He should have continued to torture the dudes without the reveal. The dudes should each time confess to a crime they think they are being tortured for. Meanwhile, a story ( as simple as a loot going untraced--that demoted Anil, unsolved murder--anything can be plugged) that resulted in Anil's demoted career can be parallelly fleshed out. The climax should be the dudes confessing to a crime that leads Anil to solve his case but he needs them alive as witness to conclude it. Here the dilemma of whether to allow them to be killed by Vardhan for the crime they inflicted on his wife must be laid out as climax.
The story as it was: There was enough screen time given to Anil's parallel story for him to be just a witness to the conclusion of Vardhan's story. Not to add Anil's story is just not addressed and could have been totally absent for Vardhan's story to be told.
Alternative: Vardhan should have been troubled by the lack of remorse on the completely nonchalant dudes who had so gruesomely murdered his wife. He should have continued to torture the dudes without the reveal. The dudes should each time confess to a crime they think they are being tortured for. Meanwhile, a story ( as simple as a loot going untraced--that demoted Anil, unsolved murder--anything can be plugged) that resulted in Anil's demoted career can be parallelly fleshed out. The climax should be the dudes confessing to a crime that leads Anil to solve his case but he needs them alive as witness to conclude it. Here the dilemma of whether to allow them to be killed by Vardhan for the crime they inflicted on his wife must be laid out as climax.