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Critics Review
2.50
Parched is a powerful women-centric drama but it falters with the underlying themes of sexuality.
Parched is a powerful women-centric drama but it falters with the underlying themes of sexuality. Also, breaking free from the shackles of tradition and society is something that stands true for Kishan�s character much more than the leading ladies. (more)
Source: Surabhi Redkar, Koimoi
3.00
Radhika Apte and Surveen Chawla starrer should be called Sex And The Village instead!
While this one is clearly a Sex And The Village that many girls might enjoy, it's not gonna leave you with a feeling of elation as it's more like a chick flick for the rural audience. You might like it but it won't make you go 'woah'! After watching Pink and having high hopes for some more of hard hitting women centric films, I was very disappointed. One time watch would be enough for this film.(more)
Source: Rashma Shetty Bali, Bollywood Life
4.00
Parched is a roadmap for our oppressed female population who have been victims of a misogynist mindset for eons.
The film addresses how there is nothing shameful about a woman's need for sex or ownership of her body. As the village women talk about their carnal desires, you empathise. Like last week's matinee offering Pink, you raise a toast to the director for raising some hard-hitting questions on the double standards of society. When Bijli asks, How come there are only abuses of the MC, BC variety or gaalis named only after women and none after men, you applaud. Frankly, like the film suggests, perhaps it is time to coin expletives after men too. (more)
Source: Meena Iyar, Times Of India
4.00
'Parched' is much more than a film
Parched" celebrates the joie de vivre of shared grief among women who live their wretched lives on the edge and are only too happily to topple over when pushed and provoked. Sometimes, feminism doesn't need a full-blown messianic clarion call. A little tug, a firm push, will do. "Parched" hits us where it hurts the most.(more)
Source: IANS, Indian Express
4.00
Radhika Apte is Outstanding as the Battered Lajjo
Parched has a scene in which the women go skinny dipping in a river on a moonlit night after an encounter with the 'exalted' dream lover.That sequence sums up the spirit of Parched. Get drenched in it. (more)
Source: Saibal Chatterjee , NDTV Movies
3.50
Parched genuinely shines
The film's leads -- Chatterjee and Apte -- are two of the finest Indian indie cinema actresses of our times. And both give strong moving performances, including a brief tender scene between the two -- a rare moment in Hindi cinema. The rest of the supporting cast is equally good. The film is lovingly shot by Russell Carpenter (Titanic, Jobs). He makes the characters and Rajasthan's landscape glow.And under Yadav's able guidance, Parched genuinely shines.(more)
Source: Sukanya Verma., Rediff.com
3.00
Where women celebrate struggles and emerge winners
The spirit of the film is celebrating fights against an unjust system and society and emerging winners � not because they have well-intentioned men rescuing them, but because they can save themselves. Watch it for the sake of the celebratory mood or watch it for a heated debate in your bedroom. Do not miss it at all.(more)
Source: Swetha Kaushal, Hindustan Times
3.00
Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla sparkle in a well-meant but self-conscious film
Parched also seems designed to appeal to a foreign film festival crowd that might buy into a dose of good ol� Indian exotica. Nothing exemplifies this better than the handsome, dhoti-clad mysterious stranger of the film (played by Adil Hussain) who makes love to women with his words and hands, driving them to otherworlds of ecstasy. (more)
Source: Anna MM, Firstpost.com
2.50
It will leave you high and dry
Writer-director Leena Yadav�s Parched left me, well, rather parched. While in some respects it quenched my thirst, but � to further stretch the sexual hint in the film�s title � mostly it left me high and dry. (more)
Source: Suparna Sharma, Deccan Chronicle