Sai Pallavi notched the whole virtue of womanhood through her absolute raw & strong acting. The best thing about Gargi was that it was not all about women's empowerment; it was all about the required empowerment of the whole idea of nurturing a woman and so many other things.
GARGI - meaning A woman who is well learned and the movie Gargi was can be the best definition for this powerful word. I will vouch for this movie till the last breath of my life by just talking about how well-versed the whole script & screenplay was of this film, from capturing a Learned woman to showing how a woman can adequately establish their knowledge with the experiences, observation, and through all the perseverance. Director just didn't show me all the different types, personas, and orders of women and womanhood, But he also showed me the same forever gender possible. This movie was never biased; it was always so properly balanced for every character and their understanding of the situation, creating a different intensity. Making a mystery legal drama always needs a lot of work and focus but keeping an essence of thrill in it throughout the movie, ahh, that right there, my friend, needs to be given a standing ovation, and this film deserves it.
I just said that Sai Pallavi showed the whole womanhood because she achieved it..... Her way of dialogue deliverance, her eyes, her stance, her expression, and every movement and detail she delivered on the screen presented every possible emotion of a girl, woman, lady, or human of any gender. The handheld camerawork was the best way the director could have evoked all those emotions from her acting. But her flawless acting was not just the performance that made this movie so fantastic; it was the supporting characters that mattered more to me. I loved how every person in this movie tried their best to be as natural as possible in those reels.
The moments when the flashbacks of the protagonist and the main case were shown, the sudden transition in the sounds, lights, and intensity was something that hit me so hard; it captivated my adrenaline. Keeping every scene so real made it much harder to digest as a viewer, and the paradoxicality in the case that was just visible to us made it so hard to actually learn that they can't do anything about the same for us.
The color grading and decoding were always there in every scene possible; for me, it never disappeared; it was there coexisting for us to get more excited. The way this movie played with the bg music and synced it with the expressions of the actors was just like a gem carved out, and I felt that whenever it was being played. The best example of this is the last scene of this movie: When Sai Pallavi comes out to the police station. The song escalates more and more to make us feel how we all were so blind and submerged in a concept or idea that we never thought of this possibility; the shallowness in her eyes made me feel mocked. Still, it was also mocking the system and everything around human life, and as the song when to the last step of high note, the sudden breakdown of the character and the sudden change in the note made me feel so broken. Ohh god, this movie, I tell you!!!!
I want to talk about many things that made me clap for this movie, but I also don't want to give it all out. This movie has a lot of answers and questions for us.