Mulk

Mulk

Excerpts & links to reviews of Mulk.

 

Starring: Tapsee Pannu, Rishi Kapoor, Abdul Quadir Amin
Director: Anubhav Sinha
India release date: Aug 03, 2018
Genre: Drama
Language: Hindi
Duration: 2 hrs, 20 mins

 

“The Khans pretty much run the show in Bollywood. But when it comes to portraying Muslims on screen, Bollywood could not be more myopic. Most of such representation in the mainstream consciousness is marked by stereotypes that swing between royalty and the underworld.”

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Sukanya Verma, Rediff
Sukanya Verma

 


 

 

“At the heart Mulk is a fearless spirit that is a far cry from the abject timidity of Bollywood, an industry that believes in upholding the status quo even if it threatens to endanger the precious pluralistic ethos that lies at the foundation of this vast nation… It isn’t often that Bollywood shows such spine.”

Rating: 4 stars | Full review

Saibal Chatterjee, NDTV
Saibal Chatterjee
“Leaves us with an impassioned plea of the need for accommodation and amity. And love. This makes Mulk one of the most important films in recent times.”

Rating: 3.5 stars | Full review

Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express
Shubhra Gupta

 

“For a second if you don’t imagine this to be a film at all, but a compelling conversation; its motive, and indeed its structure, will begin to make more sense to you… a significant polemic first, and a thoroughly engaging picture, only thereafter.”

Rating: 3 stars | Full review

Mayank Shekhar, Mid Day
Mayank Shekhar
“Voice of a section of Indian society working tirelessly to get rid of the prejudice around a certain community in the contemporary world.”

Rating: 3.5 stars | Full review

Devansh Sharma, First Post
Devansh Sharma

 

“Proceeds like an investigative thriller with lashings of topical commentary before landing up in the designated battleground of moral and ethical questions in the movies – the courtroom.”

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Nandini Ramnath, Scroll
Nandini Ramnath
“Contrary to its disclaimer, the characters represent their religions, where their lives are primarily lensed through pathos and victimhood. This approach, another form of the Madonna-Whore complex, is as reductive and harmful as one marked with prejudice, because to cast people in categories – to either just revere or deride them – is to deny them their humanity.”

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Tanul Thakur, The Wire
Tanul Thakur

 

 

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