Justice is served in right way
Devashish Makhija’s went too far.
Pitted against him is Ajji (Sushama Deshpande), Manda’s grandmother. She knows her position at the bottom of the social pyramid, among the other impoverished labourer families in Shiv Tekdi. She has seen the investigating officer switch sides; her eyes have seen the world. But she is not willing to take this lying down.
Makhija weaves together with subtlety and finesse of tale complex emotions. Particularly effective is his use of claustrophobic spaces — dingy rooms with no space to even hide one’s wounds.
Amid the barking dogs, under-construction buildings and flickering tube- lights, you know there is more violence coming.
Deshpande is terrific, as only theatre veterans can be, even when she’s only using body language. Banerjee as Dhavle snarls into the camera and weaves drunkenly along deserted streets.
The mood is right, the tone is right, the pace is right. There are no gray areas, but that’s intentional. There are two sides and you need to pick one.
One is reminded of the Korean revenge dramas of grotesque crimes and bloodcurdling revenge. By the end, you are rooting for blood too — it makes you think about what the average person is capable of, and just how monsters are made.
When Julie (Raai Laxmi) wakes up in complete make-up and yawns ‘seductively’ in the first scene, you know it’s going to be bad. Just how bad? Well, a few seconds later, she looks into the camera and says, “I am the best.”
Everybody wants Julie’s body. Julie says it herself, “Sabko Julie ka sharir chahiye… lekin usse sirf pyaar chahiye.”
Julie ‘compromises’ to become a big star. So big that she catches the attention of a French filmmaker named Jean Claude who will make a film for her in Hindi. It’s oddly satisfying to see the foreigner looking as lost as we are.
Julie goes jewellery-shopping when some gun-toting weirdos attack the shop.
They intend to kill our girl with machine guns.
Enter ACP Devdutt (Aditya Srivastava), to probe the case. He introduces himself by saying, “Sooraj barf