Filled with solid acting, ‘Gargi’ is a powerful story that will make you cry
Filled with solid acting, ‘Gargi’ is a powerful story that will make you cry
just a few weeks ago, Madhavan’s Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Performs the tests of a rocket scientist who becomes embroiled in the case of EpsonEdge.
Now, what if the same thing happens to the security guards?
gargi There is something on those lines, and much more. Sai Pallavi’s latest release combines elements of a whodunit and courtroom drama to present a difficult story that constantly plays hide-and-seek with your mind and its various judgments and pre-conceived notions.
Gargi (Sai Pallavi) is a school teacher who is on the verge of marriage. “We’ll be there analogy Even on our wedding menu?”
Just then her father, Brahmanandam (RS Shivaji), who works as a security guard in a nearby apartment, fails to return home. Gargi goes to inquire about her whereabouts, only to learn that the police have arrested her for raping a nine-year-old girl. Why has he been detained and how will Gargi handle this life-changing situation?
gargi A lot of things go right with his writing and dialogues. While it sensitively raises a number of pertinent points about sexual abuse, it also shows how a small change in perspective can help you see a situation differently. This is probably Sai Pallavi’s best performance till date; Watch her smile when someone pulls her leg in the opening scenes, and then watch her desperation as she walks from pillar to post for her father. Some of the actresses have given excellent acting in recent times. Also giving his best is Indrans (Kali Venkat), who gets more screen time as the female protagonist in a supporting role than as a lawyer. We have seen Kaali Venkat in small roles in the first few films, but gargi Uses his potential to the fullest (see the way he delivers the dialogue ‘It’s not about what you know, it’s about what you can prove’) in the film .
Sai Pallavi in ’Gargi’
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Cast: Sai Pallavi, Kali Venkat, Aishwarya Lakshmi
Director: Gautam Ramachandran
Story: A teacher has to deal with many hurdles for his father, who is accused in a gang rape case
Another filmmaker may have been tempted to cast a young man in the role and try to fit a romantic angle between the two leads, but director Gowtham Ramachandran, thankfully, is not the only person behind the summer sky. Clearly what he wants to communicate. Also props them up for casting other characters; A transgender judge is an indication that Tamil cinema is well on its way to sensitively handling subjects.
gargi is about attitude, an area in which it excels. It keeps turning its lens on the prying eyes of the media, the judgmental eyes of the system and keeps asking questions. Pushed into a corner, Sai Pallavi is disappointed but moves on with confidence. What would you do if you were him? gargi Forces you to sleep. One wishes it had discovered the journalist character (Aishwarya Lakshmi) and other members of Gargi’s family were kicked out and the flashback parts weighed in, but those are minor issues.
the surprising thing is that gargi Achieves an edge-of-the-seat mood, without the lingering tension you usually associate with a whodunit. With quiet confidence, it goes about peeling away the layers of characters, even as music by Govind Vasantha adds mood to the scenes by Saryanti and Premkrishna Akkatu. Somewhere a daughter is trying to save her father. Elsewhere, there is a father whose daughter has been molested. At the same time, there is another father whose daughter is about to get married. And then there are us, the audience, watching this courtroom drama in awe and shock. gargi Hits you in the stomach like few movies in recent times.
gargi Releasing in theaters this Friday