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idealistic retired teacher, whose son is have a modest dream of setting up a
killed in a road accident, which turns out
to be murder, orchestrated by a politician,
Balram (Manoj Bajpayee). The promised
compensation never comes, and Dwarka
is arrested for slapping the district
magistrate. His son’s friend, Manav
(Ajay Devgn) starts a campaign to release
him, with the help of a student leader
(Arjun Rampal) and a journalist (Kareena
Kapoor), and gradually, an angry populace
joins the agitation. Dwarka is released, but
goes on a hunger strike to demand action
on pending cases, and though the protest
was meant to be peaceful, violence and
riots ensue. Dwarka is killed, but Balram
is arrested, and Manav holds out hope for
an anti-corruption political party. The film
is a heavily fictionalized account of Anna
Hazare’s anti-corruption movement and
the formation of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Kai Po Che (2013):
Image Courtesy: theprint.in smuggling can send mobs into a frenzy.
The cry of Kai Po Che, familiar to kite
flyers, makes an attractive title for
Abhishek Kapoor’s film, set in Gujarat and
based on Chetan Bhagat’s 2008 novel, The
Three Mistakes of My Life. It captures the
ambitions and emotions of three friends,
against the tumult of changing India and
the two catastrophes that Gujarat suffered
– the earthquake and the communal riots.
Ishaan (Sushant Singh Rajput), Govind
(Rajkummar Rao) and Omi (Amit Sadh)
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sports goods store and cricket academy.
Omi’s uncle Bittoo Joshi (Manav Kaul) is a
politician with a right wing Hindu party,
helpful with funds to enable the boys to
set up their business. The upheavals start
with the earthquake and then the Godhra
episode and the riots in Gujarat. It was a
time that severely polarized the country,
and the tremors are still being felt.
Afwaah (2023):
Sudhir Mishra picked up a lot of
contemporary issues for his political
thriller that criticizes how social media
can be misused to instigate people, with
fake news—just a phoney video of cow
The two people caught in the web woven
by a bunch of ruthless men are Rahab
Ahmad (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), the
American-returned, upper class Muslim
man, who has the superior and mostly
naïve idea that his campus talks are
making a difference; and Nivedita ‘Nivi’
Singh (Bhumi Pednekar), daughter of a
Rajasthan leader, being forced to marry
Vikram (Sumeet Vyas) as part of a political
alliance. Vikram’s election rally had ended
in the stone-pelting riot and the on-camera
murder of the butcher. Nivi is so horrified
by it that she runs away from home, with
Vikram’s men in pursuit. When innocent