Speaking of execution, the story refuses to proceed. After a while, you want to tell the makers ‘Yes, we get it. The girls are not safe in the remand homes, but what’s the solution’? Jabbar Patel’s Marathi film Umbartha, starring Smita Patil, though told from a different perspective, touched upon this issue in a way that it was genuine.

The only thing that holds you spell-bound here is Chitrashi(Chak De) Rawat’s spunky, feisty and gritty performance as the defeatist who tries to rise to the occasion in order to save those around her who need help. But for that unalloyed performance , this film would have been just another exploitative attempt at exposing the depravity prevalent in society.

Hindi cinema, unlike its documentaries, has a long way to go before becoming effective agents of awareness and change. Till then, my loyalties lie with sensationalist news tickers and good newspapers.

…the film may not be big budget with glitzy sets yet it deals with burly issue with sensitivity. It is an eye-opener. If only our viewers could watch it once…