MUST SEE, NOT JUST FOR KULHARI’S OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE

be tting metaphor for a nation gone dumb with servility.

STARRING: Kirti Kulhari, Tota Roy Choudhary, Neil Nitin MukeshGulshan

Devaiah and Promila Pradhan

DIRECTOR: Madhur Bhandarkar HHHHH

Maybe it’s too early here to mention Kirti Kulhari’s indomitable brilliance in this grossly mis-reviewed lm. But this is as good a time as any to bring up her climactic court scene where she tells the spellbound judge how her life changed one day when she took the wrong turn and ended up watching the ravages caused by the Congress regime at Turkman Gate.

When Kirti speaks of serendipity, her character Indu (I will ignore the cheap thrills of ambiguity afforded by her full

Happily Bhandarkar, who has so far made a career out of exposing the peccadilloes of the glamorous elite, moves into political territory with reasonable con dence. The way he builds up the dread and sometimes unintended humour of the Emergency, is remarkable. The lm’s politics, though at times simplistic and half-baked, and in spite of Neil Nitin Mukesh’s atrocious hamming as a Sanjay Gandhi doppelganger, works very well for the protagonist’s journey from the dutiful housewife to the beautiful rebel without a pause.

Kirti lives every moment of Indu’s journey. She breathes life even into potentially dead scenes like the one where she must tell her husband that it is her home as well, not just his. We