![]() ![]() Sonchiriya movie review full#We hear this conversation repeated in the movie: for a film which is meant to be full of action, these ‘daakus’ speak a lot. The mid-70s, during the Emergency (we know this because we hear Mrs Gandhi’s famous proclamation on radio in the background), was a time when dacoits were being enticed by the government to lay down arms and surrender, because the time for ‘dacaiti’ was over. Bajpayee always catches the eye, and there are a bunch of authentic faces playing bit parts, but the one recognisable man who feels as if he belongs to the terrain here is Ashutosh Rana, playing a Gujjar cop out for vengeance. But the film never feels as real as it should: these are actors, some of them the most brilliant we have, play-acting, and doing a great job but play-acting all the same, at being ‘daakus’. Its band of dacoits are clad in torn and worn khakee, the holsters in which they keep their guns look used, their socks and shoes look as if they have been on those feet for miles and miles. ![]() Sonchiriya takes its looks very seriously. In 2019, to ask us to watch a film on the dacoits of Chambal, is to hold out the promise of something new, while paying full attention to realism.Ībhishek Chaubey’s very scenic Sonchiriya, tramping along those nooks and crevices of the Chambal, expending hundreds of bullets and quarts of spraying blood, made familiar by countless ‘daaku’ films of the 70s and 80s, almost always feels like a retread. The only other film which matched up, and sometimes surpassed Shekhar Kapur’s classic, which foreground the remarkable tale of Phoolan Devi in a searing cauldron of caste and class, was Tigmanshu Dhulia’s 2010 Paan Singh Tomar. They felt real even when we knew they were being realized for the film. Sonchiriya movie review cracked#They looked as if they had sprung from the cracked earth and brown ravines of the Chambal. Their clothes looked as if they had been cobbled together from what they had. These ‘dacaits’ swore fluently, their curses had the crude flavor of the place. They did not spout florid dialogue, sprinkled with lots of Urdu. Director Shekhar Kapur’s bandits did not sport dramatic black kurtas and crimson ’tilaks’. When Bandit Queen came out in 1996, it turned all the elements of the Bollywood ‘daaku’ movie on its head. Sonchiriya movie director: Abhishek Chaubey Sonchiriya movie cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Ranvir Shorey, Sushant Singh Rajput, Ashutosh Rana, Bhumi Pednekar ![]()
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