I know everyone's gone Martian this weekend and are going ga-ga over saving Private Ryan marooned on a real red planet My humble request in this mad rush to watch an awesome Ridley Scott movie is....don't ignore another pathbreaking movie made by Meghna Gulzar and scripted by Vishal Bhardwaj. TALVAR achieves something rare. It is a medium trying to tell us through tinted glass the truth about the Aarushi murder case, which is not a whodunnit or a hazy murder case but a sorry incident or chapter in Indian criminal history, where the media, judiciary, CBI and police have botched a simple murder case and TALVAR does exactly that....expose the trappings and machinations of the state to destroy a family's life beyond repair.
Irfan Khan is incredible as Ashwin Kumar, who actually is the first CBI officer Arun Kumar who solved the case. Meghna is perfect in her brevity to treat this subject matter with respect and sensitivity with no ounce of sensationalism pouring through it.
Each and every moment in the movie is fact-based and completely authentic right till the last meeting between the two CBI teams, where Arun Kumar exposes the stupidity of the 2nd CBI team and their theories.
If you are Indian, this is a mandatory watch for two reasons:-
1) Somehow protest in some form or another - to fast-track the appeal of the Talwars to get it heard in High Court so that they are set free for a crime they didn't commit.
2) Pray to God that you do not fall into jeopardy ever with respect to the State machinery, because it will devour and swallow you whole.
To me - this weekend is a toast to TALVAR and no other movie. Hard-hitting, gritty and thought provoking. This is not a movie but a text book to understand what is horribly going wrong with our democracy, which is just a system which perverts truth and bends and breaks and smashes it to smithereens. Watch TALVAR - it's uncomfortable, its horrid, it's unflinching but thats the face of truth in India. Movies rarely move people but TALVAR is one such honest humble attempt which should not be missed at any cost.
For many years it will survive as a piece of evidence and testimony which truly showed what happened that fateful night on Aarushi, while her parents were asleep in her adjoining bedroom.And for that we have to salute this piece of art or medium not just as a movie but a body of work, which transcends beyond just providing us entertainment but a catalyst to push and provoke the truth and bring it out in the open.
This is not a movie but much more!!!
Irfan Khan is incredible as Ashwin Kumar, who actually is the first CBI officer Arun Kumar who solved the case. Meghna is perfect in her brevity to treat this subject matter with respect and sensitivity with no ounce of sensationalism pouring through it.
Each and every moment in the movie is fact-based and completely authentic right till the last meeting between the two CBI teams, where Arun Kumar exposes the stupidity of the 2nd CBI team and their theories.
If you are Indian, this is a mandatory watch for two reasons:-
1) Somehow protest in some form or another - to fast-track the appeal of the Talwars to get it heard in High Court so that they are set free for a crime they didn't commit.
2) Pray to God that you do not fall into jeopardy ever with respect to the State machinery, because it will devour and swallow you whole.
To me - this weekend is a toast to TALVAR and no other movie. Hard-hitting, gritty and thought provoking. This is not a movie but a text book to understand what is horribly going wrong with our democracy, which is just a system which perverts truth and bends and breaks and smashes it to smithereens. Watch TALVAR - it's uncomfortable, its horrid, it's unflinching but thats the face of truth in India. Movies rarely move people but TALVAR is one such honest humble attempt which should not be missed at any cost.
For many years it will survive as a piece of evidence and testimony which truly showed what happened that fateful night on Aarushi, while her parents were asleep in her adjoining bedroom.And for that we have to salute this piece of art or medium not just as a movie but a body of work, which transcends beyond just providing us entertainment but a catalyst to push and provoke the truth and bring it out in the open.
This is not a movie but much more!!!
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