MOVIE REVIEW – MADAARI: SSHHH DESH SO RAHA HAI (2016)

Today we are here with DRISHYAM fame Director – Nishikant Kamat’s movie MADAARI with delayed release. The movie is based on the social issue of corruption which has gone deep into our socio-political system and at times, the movie look alike ‘A WEDNESDAY’ starring Naseer.

MADAARI is a thriller-cum-social drama film based on the story of a single father and technical expert, Nirmal Kumar (Irrfan Khan) who lost his only hope, his son - Appu in a bridge collapse due to corrupt politicians in suburban Mumbai. After his son’s death, he vows to avenge his son’s death with the corrupt politicians and kidnapped the eight years old son of the Union Home Minister from one school at Dehradun, to seek answers from those accountable.

The movie starts with Irrfan Khan’s narration saying, “Baaz chuhe pe jhapta, use utha le gaya. Kahaani sacchi lagti hai magar acchi nahi lagti. Baaz pe palatwaar hua, kahaani sacchi nahi lagti magar acchi lagti hai.” This narration sounds like a promise of a fascinating social thriller.

The first scene is of the Swantantra TV with a news item that son of Union Home Minister is kidnapped, which is not confirmed by the Govt., and we are shown reactions of different sections of public that such news can’t be true. The whole movie from Irrfan’s preparations for kidnap of Home Minister’s son from Dhehradun School is a cat and mouse game between him and the cops especially CBI Joint Director, Nachiket Verma (Jimmy Shergil) when he travels through local buses & trains from Dehradun to Mumbai.

We are shown the pain and sufferings of the common man goes through, how a father after tragic death of only son reacts and even tries to commit suicide before deciding to avenge his son’s death and wage a war against the corrupt system and proved a point by exposing those responsible before the whole country through media.

What’s Good:
Though there are numerous movies of this genre but movie proves a point when a common man is hurt by the repetitive wrongdoings of the corrupt system, he strikes and strikes heavily.
The movie shows what happens when an ordinary man then becomes a juggler (Madaari used as a metaphor) and made the corrupts dance to his tunes?
The use of stock images of happening across India, the director tries to make a hard hitting impact on the viewer.

Loop holes in the movie:
It look impractical for a lone man to kidnap the Union Minister’s son, travel that much for a week without being caught and it looks funny at times when Irrfan uses wi-fi connection at places where there are no physical structures or habitation nearby.

We are not told why his wife left Nirmal Kumar (Irrfan) even when he has married a muslim girl against the will of his family.
One of the biggest drawback of the movie is the superficially defined character of 8 years old abducted boy (Vishesh Bansal). An eight-year-old boy talking of the Stockholm syndrome is a bit much.

We are not given justification that why a Mumbai commoner thought of kidnapping the son of a Union Home Minister of Delhi. Even the portfolio of the Central Minister, Pratap Nimbalkar (Uday Tikekar) is never mentioned, who is one of the accused.

Star Peformance:-

Irrfan Khan does a great job as the frustrated and broken kidnapper. He excels in the emotional scenes, especially the one where he loses his son.
Jimmy Shergill, as the cop working on the case is extremely impressive. He is a mature actor now suits in every kind of role.
Vishesh Bansal is the kid who has been kidnapped. His transformation from ‘Tum jante nai mere dad kaun hai’ sorts to becoming a kid who understands his kidnapper’s pain is quite good.

Final words:
For movie lovers of social-genre, the instant movie has something for them. Morever, despite being an average thriller, still is better than many senseless Bollywood movies.
One more thing again, Irrfan Khan’s performance in the movie will make your every penny counts.

My ratings for this movie is 3.5 out of 5 stars.

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