Haddi Review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Anurag Kashyap Rescue This Messy Revenge Drama – FILM COMPANION
Director: Akshat Ajay Sharma
Writers: Akshat Ajay Sharma, Adamya Bhalla
Forged: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anurag Kashyap, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Saurabh Sachdeva, Vipin Sharma, Ila Arun, Shreedhar Dubey
Period: 134 minutes
Streaming on: ZEE5
Anurag Kashyap looms giant over Haddi (“bone”), a gory revenge drama starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a transgender character within the city badlands of the Nationwide Capital Area (NCR). Kashyap not solely performs the gleeful villain within the movie (the sort that plugs in noise-cancelling headphones whereas his goons go on a rampage), he additionally defines the highs and lows of its storytelling.
Haddi is the debut characteristic of Kashyap’s former assistant director, Akshat Ajay Sharma, and appears to be lower from the identical fidgety fabric. The affect is stark. For example, the highs embody an idiosyncratic soundtrack that has shades of Kashyap’s early collaborations with Amit Trivedi, Piyush Mishra and Sneha Khanwalkar; a Quentin Tarantino-esque affinity for violence; a hanging lead efficiency; an immersive solid and setting; a plot bursting with cultural and mythological vitality. The lows embody a story that’s too stressed for its personal good; an uneven screenplay; a fetishization drawback; film-making that flaunts quite than explores.
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