: IANS Review: Gargi a gripping courtroom drama that exposes social ills (IANS Rating: ****) #IndiaNEWS #Cinema/Showbiz,Southern Cinema By Manigandan K. R. Film: Gargi. Duration: 138 minutes (Releasing

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IANS Review: Gargi a gripping courtroom drama that exposes social ills (IANS Rating: ****) #IndiaNEWS #Cinema /Showbiz,Southern Cinema
By Manigandan K. R. Film: Gargi. Duration: 138 minutes (Releasing in theatres)
Director: Gautham Ramachandran. Cast: Sai Pallavi, Kaali Venkat, R. S. Shivaji, Saravanan, S. Sudha, Aishwarya Lekshmi and Livingston. IANS Rating: ****
Director Gautham Ramachandrans Gargi is a fantastic court room drama that shines the light on several important issues plaguing the society today, including the often sidelined topic of child sexual abuse and the humiliation that the families of those accused of heinous crimes like rape have to undergo in the society.
A reasonably good understanding of the working of the judicial system in India seems to have enabled director Gautham Ramachandran to come up with a refreshingly fresh script that makes several pertinent points on a number of topics ranging from rape, child sexual abuse to transgender rights.
Gargi (Sai Pallavi) is a middle-class woman working in a school, who lives with her aged parents and younger sister. With her wedding on the verge of getting fixed, Gargi is concerned about dowry demands being made by the bridegrooms side.
Nevertheless, she is in a happy frame of mind until one day news breaks out that the cops have arrested a fifth person in a sensational case pertaining to the gang-rape of a girl child.
Initially, Gargi pays little or no attention to the news but when her dad doesnt return home that night and she gets to know that he, along with other employees at an apartment complex, have been taken in for questioning by the cops in connection with the gang-rape case, her heart skips a beat.
It doesnt take long for her to be informed that her dad, a watchman at the victims apartment complex, is accused of being the fifth rapist.
Gargi begins her fight to prove that her dad is innocent. The odds are stacked against her and adding fuel to fire are mediapersons, who are constantly on the lookout for breaking news. She has no support other than a junior lawyer called Indrans (Kaali Venkat), who works part-time in a medical shop to make ends meet.
Together, they embark on the mission of proving Gargis dads innocence. Do they manage to prove his innocence? The film gives you the answer
The film has three powerful performers vying with one another to take the top honours and that invariably lifts the films class to another level.
Sai Pallavi, who essays the titular role of Gargi, Kaali Venkat, playing her stammering lawyer, and S Sudha, who appears as a transgender judge, are all exceptionally brilliant in the film.
Kaali Venkat as lawyer Indrans, in particular, is simply outstanding. Indranss character is just admirable. As a man who has never been in the limelight, he is filled with fear at the prospective outcome of taking up a high profile case like that of Gargis dad.

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