Undertrial

This movie is way ahead of its times. What it highlighted in 2007 is now emerging to be a dire commonplace headline, albeit still not discussed openly and frowned upon in private discussions. Undertrial takes the courage to demonstrate the plight of a common Indian man who's otherwise misunderstood to be a pervert opportunist who not only is alleged with voyeuring on bathing women, is also eventually slapped with a charge of raping his own daughters.

Every frame of the movie depicts a dirty truth about the way the Indian society would place an Indian common man into a trial for one charge or another. Rajpal Yadav doesn't have much to speak in this movie and still delivers a very apt performance. Prem Chopra didn't disappoint either as a veteran filling in an important role. The real star of undertrial though is the legendary Kadar Khan who is a real dynamite as the protagonist's defence lawyer.

The first half of the movie might take its time to build up the characters and might stretch a bit. Sometimes the plot gets deviated, though the able direction brings it back quickly before it gets lost. The second half is a totally intense courtroom drama which keeps getting more and more gripping as the layers peel off the unexpected truth.

Most subscribers of the typical feminist rhetoric might get triggered by the unusual truths at display here. Movies such as undertrial are a big necessity of the current times to bring up this often ignored societal anomaly. The only points I'm subtracting from the review are for the occasional foray of the script into a different tangent during the prison scenes. Spot on otherwise.