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2.50
Maatr Doesn 'Wow You Because Of The Story's Repetitive Nature
Director Ashtar Sayad, ably handles certain scenes in the film. The rape incident, has been shot with much thought, without being too sensationalized for impact. It hits you emotionally and Vidya�s struggle post it is certainly emotionally charging. In one of the scenes, Vidya gets paranoid to get into a lift having two men after all the trauma she�s been through and it has been captured well. While at first, Vidya�s character tries to make the deaths of her perpetrators look accidental, towards the end and mainly the lead villain, her plans look too amateurish.(more)
Source: Surabhi Redkar, Koimoi
3.00
A tale of a wounded mother
Director Ashtar Sayed narrated a vengeance based story in total hard-hitting format. The styling and the treatment remind you of the Korean based vengeance films. He narrates the film in a sleek and realistic manner. Raveena Tandon looks smashing and does her part with total grace. Madhur Mittal will make you hate him for a long time. Divya Jagdale, Anurag Arora and Rushad Rana lend good support.(more)
Source: Editor, IndiaGlitz.com
2.00
Raveena Tandon�s film is terribly written and lacks punch
Director Ashtar Sayed chooses Delhi as the backdrop and shows the politician-criminal-police nexus, much like Pink. But while Pink focused mostly on victim shaming, Maatr -- which means mother in Hindi -- is the story of a vengeful mother. The unidirectional approach works in the beginning when we see Raveena gearing up to unleash her anger on her perpetrators like the heroines of Dushman, Pratighat and Anjaam, but the idea begins to lose steam soon enough.(more)
Source: Rohit Vats, Hindustan Times
1.50
This Raveena Tandon film is jaw-droppingly horrifying
The roll-out is as formulaic as they come, and sometimes that can be okay too, but a film like this needs to be deeply sensitive and alert to lift the sordidness of the material. Maatr fails on this score from the first frame, with its improbable plot-points, and relentless crassness: I cringed from beginning to end. In fact, much of it is jaw-droppingly horrifying. A cop, observing the scene of the crime says: �PM desh ko shape karne ki baat kar rahe hain, aur yeh rape ki baat kar rahi hai�. Seriously? Who writes these lines?(more)
Source: Shubhra Gupta , Indian Express
1.50
Raveena Tandon's Great Comeback Is Pure Pulp
Maatr, like most other Bollywood films about sexual violence, is set in Delhi-NCR. Its aspirations, however, appear to be universal. Its writer (American film producer Michael Pellico) and director Ashtar Sayed seek to address the vulnerability of women in a world in which wild men roam free and get away with rape and murder. The vile wrongdoers in Maatr, led by Apoorva Malik (Madhur Mittal of Slumdog Millionaire and Million Dollar Arm), son 0f the Delhi chief minister (Shailendra Goyal), receive their comeuppance in deservedly painful circumstances. But that doesn't help matters at all. The film is so crudely melodramatic and ludicrously simplistic that none of the principal characters registers his or her presence firmly enough. The manner in which the screenplay approaches the inter-personal relationships between them is even more casual.(more)
Source: saibal chatterjee, NDTV Movies
3.00
Movie Review
Minutes into the movie, you see how a mother and daughter end up taking a wrong turn and unwittingly find themselves at the home of Apurva Malik (Madhur Mittal), the wayward son of a politician. High on substance, he and his gang of morally-depraved friends are ever ready to score. They rape and abuse Vidya and Tia in a brutal way, leaving you anguished. And, even before you can recover from the viciousness of it all, these two are flung from the car, onto the kerb in Nirbhaaya style, making you flinch further.(more)
Source: Meena Iyer,, Times Of India
