Vadh brings Neena Gupta and Sanjay Mishra together. The result is pure brilliance – ThePrint
Vadh brings Neena Gupta and Sanjay Mishra together. The result is pure brilliance – ThePrint
Directors Sandhu and Barnwal lucked out in the casting department, as two veterans–Gupta and Mishra–shine through each scene.
What makes directors Jaspal Singh Sandhu and Rajeev Barnwal’s Vadh different is when the parents — Sanjay Mishra and Neena Gupta — take matters into their own hands..
The crime drama has brought the two veterans — Neena Gupta and Sanjay Mishra — together for the first time.
Gupta, a senior to Mishra, who is from the National School of Drama, cites the desire to collaborate with the latter as the driving force behind doing a film like Vadh..
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The film revolves around retired school teacher Shambhunath Mishra (Sanjay Mishra) and his wife Manju Mishra (Neena Gupta) living in their 100-year-old dilapidated house in Madhya Pradesh.
The overarching theme of Vadh arises from their harrowing journey of dealing with old age, loneliness, and grief as their son abandons them after moving to the US..
Shambhunath tutors some students living in the neighbourhood, with a particular affection for a girl named Naina.
At one point, Manju and Shambhunath also wonder how life would have fared better had they birthed a daughter instead of a son..
Sandhu and Barnwal take the despair of old, abandoned parents to a different sphere as the old conflict creeps into their soulless lives..
Prajapati Pandey (Saurabh Sachdeva), the money lender Mishras had borrowed money from to send their son to the US, often pops up at their house to harass them.
During one such meeting, things take an unexpected turn when Shambhunath ends up taking Pandey’s life after the latter poses a danger to someone he and his wife consider as their own child..
“Maine maara nahi hai usse, vadh kiya hai uska,” Shambhunath tells his wife at one point, insinuating that his act of killing Pandey was an act of virtue rather than a sin.
Whether the film absolves Mishras of ‘murder’ hangs in balance, owing to the shrewd police officer Shakti Singh (played by the fine performer, Manav Vij)..
Sanjay Mishra plays Shambhunath with utmost conviction.
Sandhu and Barnwal lucked out in the casting department, as the two veteran actors shine through each scene, be it when they are breaking down or persevering through impossible situations..
Regardless of whether you enjoyed the trailer or have heard of the writer-director duo, just go for the brilliance that is Neena Gupta and Sanjay Mishra.
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