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Ajji

  • 2017
  • 1h 44m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
2K
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Sadiya Siddiqui, Sudhir Pandey, Devashish Makhija, Smita Tambe, Sushama Deshpande, Abhishek Banerjee, Kiran Khoje, Manuj Sharma, Rasika Agashe, and Sharvani Suryavanshi in Ajji (2017)
Presenting the raw and gritty trailer of the internationally acclaimed film Ajji, a dark take on Red Riding Hood.
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Little Manda is raped, her parents struggle to survive, cops can't help as perpetrator is powerful. Ajji, her grandmother, seeks justice against the injustice committed by the politician's s... Read allLittle Manda is raped, her parents struggle to survive, cops can't help as perpetrator is powerful. Ajji, her grandmother, seeks justice against the injustice committed by the politician's son who raped Manda.Little Manda is raped, her parents struggle to survive, cops can't help as perpetrator is powerful. Ajji, her grandmother, seeks justice against the injustice committed by the politician's son who raped Manda.

  • Director
    • Devashish Makhija
  • Writers
    • Devashish Makhija
    • Maya Tideman
    • Mirat Trivedi
  • Stars
    • Sushama Deshpande
    • Smita Tambe
    • Sharvani Suryavanshi
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Devashish Makhija
    • Writers
      • Devashish Makhija
      • Maya Tideman
      • Mirat Trivedi
    • Stars
      • Sushama Deshpande
      • Smita Tambe
      • Sharvani Suryavanshi
    • 315User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 9 nominations total

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    Sushama Deshpande
    • Ajji
    Smita Tambe
    Smita Tambe
    • Vibha
    Sharvani Suryavanshi
    • Manda
    Abhishek Banerjee
    Abhishek Banerjee
    • Vilasrao Dhavle
    Sadiya Siddiqui
    Sadiya Siddiqui
    • Leela
    Trimala Adhikari
    Trimala Adhikari
    • Dolly
    Rasika Agashe
    • Ayurved
    Sudhir Pandey
    Sudhir Pandey
    • Sharafat
    Shrikant Yadav
    Shrikant Yadav
    • Dhavle Senior
    • (as Srikant Mohan Yadav)
    Vikas Kumar
    Vikas Kumar
    • Inspector Dastur
    Manuj Sharma
    • Umya
    Shreyas Pandit
    • Milind
    Kamod Kharade
    • Gawli
    • (as Khaamod L. Kharade)
    Kiran Khoje
    Kiran Khoje
    • Dhavle Junior's Wife
    Manisha Malhotra
    • Burqa Woman
    Amrit Walia
    • Salwar Woman
    Afreen Shaikh
    • Mukta
    Shikhar Shrivastava
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    • Director
      • Devashish Makhija
    • Writers
      • Devashish Makhija
      • Maya Tideman
      • Mirat Trivedi
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    User reviews315

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    10MandalBros-5

    NOT FOR THE WEAK

    This film perfectly showed us what should be done to a rapist. It is not for the faint hearted as it's very much disturbing. Devashish Makhija & Cinematographer Jishnu Bhattacharjee have done a splendid job.

    Performances of all are simply superb. Even the little girl (Sharvani Suryavanshi) acted so brilliantly. Abhishek Banerjee gave one of his career best performance, Vikas Kumar is always underappreciated and of course Sushma Deshpande will blow your mind away.

    DON'T MISS THIS ONE.
    8Tejas_Vinda_AITS

    A movie of rape that will make you hate it beyond limits...!!

    It is a very dark movie, as dark as the truth of condition of women and kids in this country, as how every girl child and women is a potential victim in this country.

    How big sin it is to be a poor. This movie will shake your every inch with the kind of detailing it does with every scene, making your feel ashamed and angry as an Indian and over the society in which we live.

    A 10 year lovely kid is raped and thrown in junkyard. For police it becomes a case to extort money from the influential person while victims are further victimized and terrorized. It is conveyed to them that thinking about living with dignity is foolish for any poor otherwise even most basic things like earnings and bread better too would be difficult.

    A truth in a nation where criminals rule and where rape has become a sort cultural activity of Indians. A nation where law enforcement system has become devoid of law and just enforcement system, works on payroll of criminals..this movie compells u to think that you need to go for justice on your own way.

    It is your responsibility to ensure anyway that you don't accept such crimes just silently and dead. This movie is grim dark and may distrub you with the kind of detailing it has done of everything...including the psyche of a pervert rapist, a poor father who always feels sorry for failing for his family though poverty is not his mistake and its misery is not his fault..he looses his hand in machine..still he feels sorry that he would compell his family to more hardship.

    Such scenes bleed your heart. It even strips naked of the fact that how migrants are easy victims of so called son of soils who do crime without any hitch just coz they are locals. Every scene is sharp and well detailed in short.

    Performances: Such movies are performance and content oriented always. Sushma Deshpande has done a terrific job as a revengeful grandma. Sadia is also good. Sudhir Pandey as butcher in short role impresses a lot. The villain's performance is that u start hating him so much that u wish that you could chop him into pieces as if left he could keep on victimizing. I don't know much of the rest but they are equally superb.

    Finally, it is a movie of rape that will make you hate it beyond limits...it is needed to be watched by everyone so that even those who r still sleeping in slumber should get a boiling blood and zero tolerance about the menace which has become epidemic for India and where every single girl child is under danger in this perverted society. It is just pity that such movies don't find even screens and distributors and criminals like Salman Khan and his useless movies still enthrall this sleeping society in a dark hall!
    10johnfield-theatreandpupp

    Riviting independent drama about an important subject

    I saw this film at the UK Asian Film Festival in London - the lead actress rightly won the best actress award - don't miss this gripping drama - brilliant !
    9rock_cool

    A ultimate revenge thriller

    Watch it for the maturity of the Indian cinema, watch it if you want to watch a movie made in India by the someone like Quentin Jerome Tarantino caliber, watch it if you want to taste the real caliber of the Indian Cinema, Watch it if you thick Indian cinema is behind Hollywood by a long margin...... but pls watch it.... more than worth it.
    10RosanaBotafogo

    Masterful ...

    A sad and disgusting film, but so real, that it gives one repulsion, an unprecedented disgust, so much that bothers and hurts the mud in one film, rape of a little girl, the performance of the police officer responsible for the investigation, disgusting, he wanting see the victim's private parts, cornering the whole family, the rapist with impunity, the film was of a raw and masterful perfection, everything raw, strong, hurts, hurts, and the end, it doesn't wash the soul, but softens the anger... Masterful ...

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    • Release date
      • November 24, 2017 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Official site
      • Official site [Yoodlee Films]
    • Language
      • Hindi
    • Also known as
      • Granny
    • Production companies
      • Saregama India
      • Yoodlee Films
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 44m(104 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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