Movie Review: Antardwand
Movie Review: Antardwand
Banner: Nawabs Cottage Productions
Director: Sushil Rajpal
Story Writer: Sushil Rajpal
Star Cast: Raj Singh Chaudhary, Vinay Pathak, Swati Sen, Akhilendra Mishra, Himanshi, Jaya Bhattacharya, Neelima
Movie Review
People who have heard of forced marriages and groom abduction are not aware of the real issues behind these marriages and the consequences of such marriages. The movies tries to depict what is it all about– -in a convincing way and it also tries to say that it is still happening. There are a number of cases of forced marriages in Bihar and a few marriages sustain after these kinds of incidents but some don’t .The film has a script which has been narrated very well and the performances of lead casts is good.
The story of the film is about a young man in New Delhi, who lives with his girlfriend and he has a dream to clear the civil services examinations one day. The father of the boy is happy about his son’s ambition but the father is shocked to know that his son wants to go for love marriage. In Bihar (in some castes’) parents rarely accept it – because a boy who can qualify for IAS will get bride from good rich family and the groom may get a lot of money in the form of dowry. The son goes half heartedly back to Delhi but on the way he is abducted and forcefully married to a girl by the girls’ father – who had been eyeing on him from sometime.
The film is about how the boy who has loved somebody else – consummates the forced marriage – he never expected to happen.
The story directed by Sushil Rajpal is nice and portrays a lot of drama .It is new story of groom kidnapping (till now no movie was made on Pakroua Shaadi ) and the shoot locations are extremely beautiful. There performance of Vinay Pathak and Akhilendra Misra is fine. The story shows how the family has to obey the dominating orders of the father because he is responsible for everything – and he is even ready to commit a crime for his daughter’s marriage. The father of the boy imposes his ambition of making his son an IAS .Both the father’s (father of girl and the boy) are fulfilling their dreams through their kids , and they do it because they want their children to be happy.
The film has wonderful performance from the lead cast and it is really catching new story for rest of the India outside Bihar.
Rating: 5 /10
Other details:
Music Director: Bapi, Tutul
Cinematography: Malay Ray
Art: D.K Singh, Rajeev Dwivedi
Editor: Aseem Sinha
Screenplay: Amitabh Varma