Badlapur Movie Review - Hard hitting fare

Ameet Bhuvan

How far would you go to seek revenge ? Where do the lines blur between your revenge and a new crime you commit in its wake? Sriram Raghavan's 'Badlapur' forces you to visit these questions as you sit through a hard hitting disturbing story that grips from the word go.

Raghu is a normal guy with a loving wife and kid. His life is changed forever when the wife and kid are killed by two, one of whom is caught while the other is on the run. 15 years after when Raghu gets a chance to avenge the murders we are taken through a series of events that confuse you as to whom to empathise with the suffering Raghu or the killers.

Placed squarely in the quirky noir genre Badlapur plays its cards well. A sellable star without much of an image , Varun is juxtaposed with screen gems like Nawaazuddin and Vinay Pathak. Huma Quershi, Radhika Apte and Yami Gautam lead the ladies brigade with consummate ease and luminescence bringing strength to their parts. While Varun finds it hard understandably to match upto Nawaaz, he does deliver a first time performance for his career and charts a new course for the actor in him. It is Nawaaz however who steals the show and chews up the scenery each time he is on screen.

Special mention must so go to Raghavan for making a film that is not the usual escapist fare and pushing boundaries well within the mainstream. Badlapur is absolutely worth your time and money go for it.

Rating 3/5