With a ticket in hand, as I walk across the pavement, I am not so surprised to see the crowd. There are a lot of women in the hall, which is obviously because of the movie which I am here for.
Isn’t it amazing, the quality which these moving images hold? They grab your eyes constantly for 3 hours. You forget who you are or what you going through, it takes you straight inside the 70 mm screen and makes you feel exactly what the characters are going through.
I have always been a movie enthusiast but this time I didn’t really have much time to watch a movie, neither was I interested in watching ‘Mom’ in the first place. But I thank my boss for suggesting that I watch the movie at our morning meeting.
Mom is a brutal terrifying film which pierces your heart and leads you to the reality of “Dil Walo Ki Dilli”.
It is a terrifying yet riveting film which deals with the horror and trauma a rape victim experiences and debutant director Ravi Udyawar has done an outstanding job of balancing the drama with equal amount of shock, thrill and honest emotions.
The pivotal sequence of Mom has a definitive mood to it. Late into the night, we see the black SUV slither down a deserted Noida street. We know that the young girl, Arya (Sajal Ali), who was abducted from a farmhouse party, is being assaulted within. The background score, the music and the smooth drone-like vision holds some kind of confrontational tone about the whole incident.
Being a girl born and brought up in Delhi, there is no denying to the fact that before travelling alone in Delhi especially late night you’ll have to think twice. It has earned an image -- never trust anybody. The movie is just another example portraying what a dark Delhi night holds.While the film ventures into the nooks and crannies of the metropolis to capture its many divides, moral and social, the screenplay steers clear of sensationalism. The director gets the Valentine's Day abduction and gang rape sequences out of the way quickly and without gloating over the outrageous nature of the incident.
It plays out along largely foreseeable, if disquieting, lines, but MOM doesn't strictly fall into the category of a conventional rape-and-revenge drama. It breaks free from the genre constraints on the back of a clearly defined moral and emotional context. It presents vengeance as a choice between two wrongs separated only by their respective degree of severity.
The movie is a good package with a great cast, each and every actor in the movie did justice to their respective roles. But the question here is did the movie do justice to reality? The movie not only showcases how weak the justice system of India is but also the filmmaker portrays the whole process of revenge as a cake walk, making the viewers believe how intelligent the mother of two is.
Some inconsistencies in the movie are like the police official failed to notice Sridevi when keeping an eye on the father. The cops also forgot to interrogate the guard appointed at Mohit Chadda’s apartment and yes, just to support the plot it also failed to check whether anybody else tried to enter Charles Diwan’s residence.
The movie is interesting and made my heart pound on several occasions but it definitely is not a movie from which anybody should get inspiration from. I believe Justice takes time but is never denied.