Sonchiriya Movie Review: Sushant Singh Rajput Shines in the World of Morally Ambiguous Bandits youtu.be

When after its signature tune the national news channel announces the declaration of emergency on radio, a group of bandits enters a village in the ravines of Chambal. The pack of the chief warns everybody of dire consequences if they don’t cooperate but little does he know that flying bullets are far less deadly than the haunting images from his bloody past. It’s a gang guided by Man Singh aka Dadda (Manoj Bajpayee) through the dusty and unforgiving bylanes in the Chambal valley. The water is so clear that you can see the bottom and air is so pure that all your wishful thinking takes a backseat. But it’s the life in between that’s hard, testing, judgmental and full of dangers. It doesn’t matter if you’re a bandit or a farmer, all this will culminate inside the barrel of a gun. It’s wilder than the wild, wild west and more divided than our opinion on reservation. There are castes, sub-castes and bizarrely envisioned pride associated with them. Being a Man Singh or a Phuliya (Phoolan) isn’t a matter of choice but of survival.