Film review: ’Saand Ki Aankh’ mostly hits the mark
5 years, 2 months ago

Film review: ’Saand Ki Aankh’ mostly hits the mark

Live Mint  

In Johri village, Uttar Pradesh in 1999, three wives of the Tomar men are perpetually veiled. When a shooting range is set up in the village, Chandro envisages a ticket for her granddaughter Shefali and Prakashi sees a way for her daughter Seema to break out of the cycle of inequity. Family patriarch Rattan Singh Tomar rules with an iron fist so it takes all their ingenuity for the 60-year-old versions to find excuses to travel out of their village to compete across India. Much screen-time is taken revisiting village life and women’s bonding in the back room, which slows down the narrative. There’s also a troublesome scene of an elegant soiree where the women from Johri village are portrayed as fresh-of-the-boat simpletons drinking finger bowl water and chasing flickering lights cast by a mirror ball.

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