sudipt agarwal

Movie definitely exceeded my expectations and for second, which usually has been very rare in my entire cinematic experience, it motivated ME to change something in MY personal life – immediately. More about that later. Cast: I had some apprehensions about Ayushmann Khurrana playing the lead, with his mushy next-door lover boy image. But nowhere has he went overboard and tried to become ‘Ajay Devgan action packed messiah of the masses’. He is simply a new IPS officer, fresh from academy coming to terms with so much dirt thrown on his face immediately into posting. He smoothly enters into the skin of the character who matures by each passing scene in the movie. He is the true glue holding the entire piece together and has done a fabulous job. This movie can definitely be regarded as one of his best works to-date. The ensemble cast led by Sayani Gupta, Kumud Mishra, Manoj Pahwa, Mohammed Ayyub, Nassar, Ronjini and many others have delivered their full and presented some of the finest performances on-screen. I am aching to write about their characters and how beautifully and in raw form each have done but description of characters is not without spoilers, hence I would refrain from that. Music: The music is all theme based with no special song sequences separately. Most of which is mainly folk songs with thought-provoking lyrics, speaking to the audience about glaring gaps in our society. Story Story, script & direction is the true King here. Article 15 refers to ‘Right to Equality’ section of the Constitution which was so thoughtfully designed by our freedom fighters esp Babasaheb. Via one of the deplorable incident set in a UP village, movie tells the saga of social mess that India has yet not been able to break-free even after 72 years, the feudalistic tendencies that still pervades the social structure, the audacity to typecast entire community, callousness of politics, administration and apathy of perhaps the majority towards the lower caste, poor, uneducated, THE quintessential ‘Have-not’ of the society. Movie has it’s share of twist and turns which keep you on-the-edge. Each of the character unwraps itself showing multi-layer of an individual. Movie doesn’t become didactic, preachy at any point of time. It never takes any heroic turn. Through unfolding of the centre story line, movie presents the case and facts as is. After 2hrs 10mins (running time), it leaves you unsettled that although the movie has got closure but how about our society, threads of our India’s social fabric are really undone and wide open with gaping holes. The dialogues between the characters are not to each other but callouts to the audience sitting there. Am I party to this crime as well. Do we type cast ‘Ache kaam’; ‘Gande Kaam’. Do we look to choose the other way to manual scavenging (do we even know it’s meaning?) happening at our societies, ‘housekeeping people’ picking our filth in offices and homes. All this made me thinking upon which I decided to clean my house toilets and not a maid or sweeper. Overall, it’s definitely is a silver screen watch, as the entire experience and emotions flows much better there and the connect with characters. However, for the people pressed on time, Netflix is movie’s exclusive streaming partner and I am sure you can catch a show on your device sometime soon.