Gargi, Review

 

Gargi is a legal melodrama of a girl who fights for her father to set him free from the court of law.

Plot.

Gargi, played by Sai pallavi, is a school teacher from a humble background. Her father Brahmanandan works as a security guard in an apartment and her mother finds her livelihood by selling fermented dosa batter. One day, her father gets arrested by the police alleging a gang rape on a 9 year old girl. Gargi and her family faces ostracism and social auditing as she tries to prove her fathers innocence with the support of her lawyer.

Positives.

The film have a mix of genres like family, courtroom, romance, womenhood, crime, investigation and so on. Each of these elements are precisely added to the core to make it fine in its finals.

Sai pallavi leads the film by taking all its responsibility on her shoulder without sharing the burden on any other characters in the film. Her hopelessly confused reactions and dried up eyes were the best to reflect what Gargi is.

It criticises the patriarchy in an emotionally inflated situation, and also makes strong statement on transphobia, gender based descrimination and redtapism. 

It upholds justice in a double twisted way and concluded the narrative with a positive outlook.

Negatives.

Some Scenes are less intense, neither with dailogues nor in terms of visuals. No separate scene one could cherrypick from the film as it kept the continuity in every sequence intentionally.

Songs were not that great and interesting.

Rating.

Am giving 8/10 for this carefully blended legal drama.