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Watch out for Rajesh Tailang as conscientious television journalist who kno7ws when to stop recording a tragedy as news report,Divyendu Bhattacharya as a savage butcher and Thakurji’s dirty right-hand, and Ishtiyak Khan as the juvenile rapist’s timorous driver…they bring an unexpected heft to the sanguinary saga. I specially liked the cannily crafted confrontational sequence between Chaddha and Shivaleeka Oberoi where the grieving mother replies to every veiled threat from the boorish beghum from hell,with an insulting insouciance.Ĭhaddha apart, the frames are filled with powerful actors. Sheeba Chaddha as the vile politician Thakurji, Lucknow’s lesbian version of a gangster, gives her character a chilling menacing edge. An eye for an eye and pain for pain….Faruk Kabir’s film is a timely ireful warning of what the criminally powerful can do if they are allowed to get away with murder. It is justice.Īnd we applaud.It’s time to stop believe in the Gandhian philosophy. Sameer kills him instantaneously.This is not a spoiler. There is a moment when the protagonist Sameer(Jammwal) gets to know the 12-13 year old boy standing sobbing in from of him had raped his 5-year old daughter. Writer-director Faruk Kabir grinds his boots into the vile act with a persuasive force.The action is never gratuitous, but extremely wrathful and brutal.

It is a tautly told tightly edited(Sandeep Francis) thriller about child rape.

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The second chapter in the Khuda Haafiz series is a far more laudable endeavour. Reading some of the arrogantly dismissive reviews of this slick spin on the vendetta genre, I was convinced, more than ever, that nowadays the selfcrowned critics of filmistan review the directors and actors, and not the end-product.įaruk Kabir’s Khuda Haafiz in 2020 was an extremely mundane fare, at best a timepasser during a desperate lockdown evening. Starring Vidyut Jammwal and Shivaleeka Oberoi

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