Mardaani II: What we think

By Padma Dolma

In the era where romance and comedy are the most popular genres, a movie like Mardaani 2 is trying to break the shackles. Very different from the mainstream entertainment and with a very important message for the audience, it hits all the right nerves.

For us, it was an eye opener and shows the sick mentality of some men who can’t handle criticism, especially by a woman.

Laced with gut wrenching and hard hitting scenes, it is a good try on part of the team to talk about such prevalent but ignored subject.

The sequel to Mardaani, Shivani Shivaji Roy, a lady super cop is after a young & remorseless criminal who is murdering young women and raping them. Yash Raj’s this film has broke forth wall where the villain talks to the audience directly and keeps that pace through out the film.

The movie portrays the misogyny structure of Indian society where Shivani faces discrimination at her work place.

The story is based in ‘Kota’ city which is a student region where crime happens very often and ‘Sunny” a criminal who was hired by a local politician to kill a reporter and he has a personality where he can’t tolerate the women’s empowerment and their high status in the society ,he has a sick mind and in the process of assassination of the reporter he encountered several girls who he had rapped and murdered and Shivani is the SP of the city.

In the phase of catching him she calls him “Dedd Shana,” an over smart lad in a press conference that made him even more igitated, and he takes it as an open challenge. He sends her flowers, busts into her house and took some of her dresses, even got a job in tea stall near her police station where he got to evesdrop the case. He also abducts the witness who is a kid and kills him, getting all the fingers pointed on Shivani and making her the center of media criticism, resulting in her transfer.

While everyone was busy in Diwali celebration she had just two days in hand to catch the culprit. At last she gets the criminal and allows all her aggression to let go. 

Anupama Chopra says, Mukherjee’s performance was a consistently watchable one , her review on the movie states that she was satisfied by the punishing of the criminal who did heinous crime to women.

Image courtesy: @timesofindia