Sherni Review: Movie captures the reality of politics in forest division and issues of innocent villagers
Sherni Movie Rating: 3 stars
Just watched Sherni movie on Amazon Prime Video. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Vidya Balan, Brijendra Kala, Vijay Raaz, Sharat Saxena, Mukul Chadha and Ila Arun
Director: Amit Masurkar
Release Date: 18th June 2021 (On Amazon Prime Video)
Story: Film is set in a Bijaspur Forest Division, Madhya Pradesh, India. Vidya Vincent (Vidya Balan) is a committed forest officer who hasn’t got a promotion in nine years and after six years of a desk profile he joined Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) in Bijaspur Forest. Her intend is to capture a tigress that has caused havoc in a region. Her husband Pawan (Mukul Chadda) is away in Mumbai while she resides alone in a residence allotted by the Forest Department. She is not happy with the promotions and salary hikes that she has received in the last 9 years and wants to quit. But Pawan advises against doing so as his corporate job is on shaky grounds.
One day, Vidya learns that a tiger was spotted close to a village. A few days later, the tiger kills a villager, leading to anger among the locals. Through the camera traps, the forest officers learn that it’s a tigress, named T12 which is behind the killing of the villager. For the villagers, tigers passing through their fields is a norm, as their village is flanked by forests on both sides. In their own words, the tigers often pass by without even glancing in their direction, but this new development spreads the fear of lives and livelihood.
The elections are around the corner and the sitting MLA, G K Singh (Amar Singh Parihar) makes it a political issue. He promises the village residents that he’ll kill the tigress and thus provide respite to them. On the other hand P K Singh (Satyakam Anand) is an ex MLA who wants to get back to power. He provokes people against G K Singh. Amidst this madness, another villager is killed while she goes to collect wood in the forest. G K Singh then invites Ranjan Rajhans aka Pintu (Sharat Saxena) who is a self-proclaimed conservationist but who is actually a hunter.
He desires to kill T12 to fulfil his hunger for hunting. Vidya, however, is not in favour of killing the animal. She advises the villagers to stay away from the forest. Using camera traps and tracking the pug marks, she hopes to find T12, tranquillize her and then release her in a nearby national park. Her only support seems to comes from Hassan Noorani (Vijay Raaz) who is a zoology professor in a nearby college, some of the local villagers like Jyoti (Sampa Mandal) who is a member of the village committee
Time is running out and it’s important she succeeds in her endeavor before it snowballs into a huge controversy and before Pintu hunts the tigress down. What happen next is all about this movie.
Positives
1. Excellent Performances
2. Cinematography
3. Direction
4. Story
Negatives
1. Repetitive
2. Climax
3. Music
4. Slow screenplay
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I watched the trailer of this film it looks interesting because of it’s subject and star cast. Planned to watch this film in my free time.
It is the story of a lady forest officer Vidya Vincent who moves heaven and earth to save a tigress T12, which has been on the prowl in the jungle and has been killing people. There is a conservationist, Pintu who is bent upon killing the tigress in a bid to win brownie points among the villagers. Some villagers, however are on the side of Vidya Vincent. Vidya’s senior, Akhil Nangia is finally put in charge of leading the mission to capture T12. Whom does he side with? Does Vidya Vincent accomplish her mission?
It begins on a dry note. The opening credits are shown on a black screen with no music. It makes it clear that the film is for niche audiences. rests on an interesting storyline and Vidya Balan’s performance. But the slow and documentary-style narrative, longer runtime and bewildering climax ruins the impact. The story holds appeal for a very thin section of the audience because it deals with jungles and animals. It is repetitive scenes further bore the viewers who often get the feeling that the drama is simply not moving forward. Hence instead of involving the audience the screenplay makes the majority of them silent spectators who often get bored because the drama moves at a snail’s pace. My view on this movie (Recommended) only if you like realistic movies.
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