Strong female rape revenge drama thriller taking place in Delhi, possibly
the rape centre of India (if you would believe the news one hear here
in
the distant Scandinavia?). Well, it seems to be a problem and in this
film the beloved Sridevi, the great actress, goes Charles Bronson on
a couple
of rapists and murder creeps. Sridevi is such a powerful actress and
it's a tregedy that she went away to soon, drowning in her bath.
A mysterious death and maybe induced by fatigue, medicines, alcohol
or .... murder.
When writing this at the end of September 2020 Bollywood is shaken by
the huge drug scandal and the also mysterious death
of young Sushant
Singh Rajput, explained as a suicide but possibly a murder related to
the drugs flooding the Mumbai film industry. I'm sure Bollywood will
have to
clean up it's act and the indian people has turned it's wrath on to
the lifestyle of the privileged stars. Drugs, casting couch and sexual
harassment
of women and possibly even murders haunts Bollywood, and that sounds
like the ingredients of a Bollywood film. Reality surpasses fiction.
Sridevi plays Devki Sabarwal, a highschool teacher,
stepmother to the 18 year old daughter Arya (Sajal Ali) and with her
husband Anand (pakistani
actor Adnan Siddiqui) travelling a lot abroad. Devki is worried about
her beautiful teenage stepdaughter and the problems she may encounter
as a
young woman, and Arya has been harassed by a boy, Mohit, in her class.
When Arya goes to a big Valentine Day party with her friend Priya, she
refuses to dance with Mohit and also snubs Mohit's much older and creepy
friend Bunty when he tries to charm her. The guys are furious, tries
to drug her and then along with some more criminals abducts her in a
van where
they horrifyingly beats her up and gang-rapes her for finally dumping
her in a sewer-filled ditch.
That was intense and very nasty to watch and Arya miraculously
survives. The question you put to yourself : Where's Charles Bronson
when you
need him ? OK, but Charlie is dead, so what to do? Middle-aged Mrs.
Sabarwal has to deal with it herself.
SPOILERS BELOW ................. WARNING! SPOILERS
BELOW .............................
The Amazing Actor duo: Nawazuddin Siddiqui
and Sridevi - 2 Titans of Bollywood film
Devki goes to the police for help looking after her
missing daughter, but she's met with lukewarm interest. A missing teenage
kid, huh, "she will show
up, relax lady" and in Bollywood films the indian police usually
are depicted as unefficient and corrupted or even violent (as they seems
to enjoy
beating up people with their long sticks a lot). But, an odd-looking
man (Nawaz in a bald makeup) offers her his help and he's DK or Dayashankar
Kapoor PD (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and Nawaz almost steals the limelight
away from Sridevi with his great performance. I love this fantastic
actor.
DK is a bit quirky though and he annoys her somewhat so his help will
have to wait for a while.
Arya is found finally and wakes up from her coma and
gives the police her statement. The police arrests the perps but are
aquitted in Court, where the
blame is put on Arya, the victim, as she was drunk during the Valentine
party. Time for Revenge.
Devki hires the help of the quirky Private detective DK and soon the
rapist murder pigs starts to die, and painfully so, castrated etc.
The crime cop investigating the mysterious deaths are played by Akshaye
Khanna, another actor i have always liked.
This Indian DVD was hard to get hold of as it was sold
out in India, Sridevi was an Icon of Film in India, and i was glad to
find it in England.
The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen with a hindi 5.1 audio
and with english subtitles. Bare bones edition and No Extras
