Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai movie review: Manoj Bajpayee film is sensitive, human – The Indian Express
Based mostly on the real-life trial and conviction of a self-styled ‘godman’ Asaram Bapu who preyed upon naïve younger ladies, and their much more gullible mother and father, Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai has a vein of sensitivity operating by way of it. And that’s an important component when the topic is such, whose therapy may so simply flip problematic.
Nu (Adrija) and her mother and father (Jaihind Kumar and Durga Sharma, as the daddy and mom respectively) are consultant of tens of millions of Indians who venerate these ‘godmen’, and fetch up at their doorstep within the hope the latter will ‘remedy’ their younger ladies of their ‘issues’. The scenario is ripe for exploitation, and there have been numerous cases of rape and molestation which were shoved underneath the carpet due to numerous causes — the worry of social opprobrium, in addition to the issues that happen when the victims take the authorized route, starting from expense to humiliation.
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At no level does the movie make us queasy when Nu is on display, in courtroom and out of doors it. However, and that is additionally the difficulty with the movie, that there’s not sufficient give attention to the woman and her trauma, which we see solely by way of the eyes of her morally upright lawyer P C Solanki (Manoj Bajpayee). Regardless of all types of pressures, together with a menace to his life, he sees her case by way of for 5 lengthy years, because it drags by way of the tardy Indian justice system with its predilection for delays, particularly in relation to defending the wealthy and highly effective.
The movie is about in Jodhpur, and from Solanki’s terrace, the grand Mehrangarh fort is seen, giving us an actual sense of place. The tentacles of the Baba and his cohorts are unfold by way of the city: we see his employed goons going after those that are about to offer proof in opposition to him, and the graceful, refined authorized eagles combating his case.
However that is one movie the place the nice wins, and the dangerous loses. Bajpayee slips easily into the function of Solanki, a religious Shiv bhakt, and a person not above desirous to make impression on the well-known attorneys arrayed in opposition to him. He’s human, he will get scared, and loses his mood when issues go uncontrolled. However at his core, he’s an trustworthy man who can’t be purchased or swayed, with a full of life relationship together with his son, although you would like he wasn’t referred to as ‘Buddy’ in a self-consciously ‘cool’ transfer, which comes off clunky. And I wished to see extra of Nu, performed by Adrija so nicely.
Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai film forged: Manoj Bajpayee, Adrija, Kaustuv Sinha, Surya Mohan Kulshrestha, Jaihind Kumar, Durga Sharma
Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai film director: Apoorv Singh Karki
Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai film ranking: 2.5 stars
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