Gurgaon

Gurgaon is a complex tale of a farmer turned land developer Kehri Singh. He has two sons and an adopted daughter whom he favors. This is a unhappy family and it's apparent right from the start. The dissatisfied elder son plots to kidnap the sister and things spiral out of hand.

This is as dark as anything I've ever seen in a film. This film is full of dark pasts, male egos and violence against women. The performances are great and the background score maintains a constant sense of dread throughout the film.

First things First - To be honest for people who haven't lived in Gurgaon might feel that this is what Gurgaon is .. hot headed, rowdy, instilling some sort of fear in you all the time .. well, this is where I am in a fix .. because Gurgaon is definitely this when you read or hear about it .. and Gurgaon is not that when you live and work in here. The layman is busy earning the daily bread and is just unaffected from hooliganism and all ..

Now to the 2nd thing - The problem started when the farmers literally became rich overnight .. filthy rich by the way, not just casual rich .. The native of Haryana had always been worst when it came to things like girl child, honor caste systems and no remorse come what may, among 100 other things which are not good for a healthy society. With such notions give a person unattainable wealth .. this is what happens ..

Now to the movie :) well the movie in itself is alright .. I wouldn't call it gripping because somehow things were not stitched together really well .. there were moments where you feel that it wasn't necessary .. and those moments are highlights by the way .. The moments were merely added to show the lawlessness about Gurgaon and had nothing to do with the story line. Also, the eeriness was kinda forced .. you would know in the moment what is going to happen ..

So, Gurgaon as a movie might depict Gurgaon but only a smallish subset of Gurgaon which has little or nothing to do in the life of a layman. So .. it is unwise to say that Gurgaon is what Gurgaon is .. No .. it is about this particular story and how it is projected on screen. And when it comes to this .. I think the movie was alright .. and when it is streaming on netflix these days .. better see it than not. :)

This movie had a potential to be a good movie but it was ruined due to lazy writing.

The 1st half was brilliant and captivating but the 2nd half became equally disastrously.

The entire dialogues were in haryanvi so hindi speaking people cannot understand a single word without subtitles.

Director n cinematographer Shanker Raman's #Gurgaon, another low-budget film, is amazing. The North-Indian setting is real, dark, gloomy n disturbing. A father (Tripathy) wants to hand over his real-estate business to his educated n responsible beti (Khanna), but the nalayak beta (Oberoi) is dead against this move. He kidnaps her, to pay off his debts n what follows is both, interesting n intriguing. Good performances from the entire cast, makes this film memorable. The climax is hatke n clapworthy. Rating 4/5.

It's a story of how money and its greed can change people