Very good. It's a crime drama-thriller intense enough to keep you interested from the beginning.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
This movie had me on edge. The acting and story were great. Different in a way between a woman and her step-daughter. Definitely worth watching. Great pace and a very good story for parents today. A lesson to be learned.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
I had captioning on because they switch between English and Hindu when they are speaking. Any mother would feel the way this mom felt after what happened to their daughter. Only in movies can paybacks be made to the violent criminals who through the courts get no punishment. Tear jerker
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Worth to watch it.....
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
I like how each and everyone performed their respective roles beautifully and naturally. It is a recommended movie to watch with your family. The storyline of the movie was very nice.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Great storyline perfectly depicting motherly love and the struggle girls do often have when raped. My only concern is the good cop ending that I'm not sure whether it really happens.
Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
The only thing that made me watch until the end of the movie, is how the rapists will end up. It showed what should happen to vile, perverse men, and they deserve all kinds of pain and humiliation. But the way the characters were written? It ruined the movie. In the end, it all felt rushed. Even the climax of the movie was in the last 20 minutes of the damn 2 hour film.
First, Arya. Rape is rape, and all rapists and people taking advantage of others for their sexual desires must die in immediately. Send them to the emptiness of space, while we watch the oxygen leave their body, and their pathetic corpse drift aimlessly in space. But to me, it seems that Arya blaming Devki up until the last minutes of the movie wasn't because of trauma or anything. It was simply because Arya was stupid. And she's stupid because she was written based on the narrative that 1) Teens are angsty little shits 2) she prefers her true mother than Devki. 3) Trauma. True, teenagers are at times, angsty little shits. Their decisions sometimes lead to unfortunate events that fucks up their life, But in reality, they aren't THAT stupid. The writers seem to have went overboard with the narrative that they intended to base Arya on, and because of it, it led to Arya's disdain towards the unrealistic. Even if she was under trauma, no one is stupid enough to blame anyone other than the rapists, but in this case, Arya did, which was unrealistically stupid. They wanted to enforce this sort of 'character development' on Devki and Arya so they simply made this disdain to deepen that relationship. Besides, Arya is from a rich family and seemingly studying in a private school, so she shouldn't be that dumb. But in this movie, trauma makes you stupid.
If it were me, I would've written Arya to put the blame on Devki in a subtle manner. Put it at the back of her head and she distances herself more from Devki because she SUBCONSCIOUSLY thinks that part of what happened to her was Devki's fault. A little confrontation happens between Arya and Devki, wherein Arya tells Devki that her rapists mentioned "where's your mother now?", hinting that her rapists were the little shitty brat and his friends. Arya cries, but not because she blames Devki, but her trauma is making her think of things the other way around, and she is fully aware of it. Devki puts her foot down and begins her vengeful crusade. That would've been better than Arya putting at more than half the blame on her stepmother.
Next, the rapists. I think their deaths would've been written more concretely, like the guard. Devki visits Charles after she poisoned him, which was a really STUPID move. Was she expecting for Charles to die there during her visit? Either way, she risked her identity to Charles, and he was still capable of at least visualizing to someone who his killer was, WHICH HE DID. It was just a huge facepalm for that scene.
Next, the detective DK. Who the actual fuck is this character?? xD It seems like they simply made this convenient character who will help the main character. He's a detective but he led Devki into murdering two rapists? As much as they deserved it, it was unrealistic for this DK character to do it. Why? Because of his religious beliefs?? If Matthew the detective would trace DK and Devki anyway, then he would've gathered sufficient evidence to solidify his case--that DK is assisting Devki. But NO, this macho guy who needs to buy new shirts, just muscles his job by torturing witnesses, which is again unrealistically stupid. Sure, there are police who torture witnesses, but they again went overboard with this narrative.
Finally, the ending. WHAT A FUCKING WASTE OF TIME!!
So Jagan traces Devki, because Devki was such an idiot showing up to Charles. She had all the knowledge and capability of cutting someone's dick off and using apple seed cyanide, and she was stupid enough to leak her identity? She was so cautious with DK that Matthew the detective was on their tail, but she was stupid enough to leak her identity to Charles?? Jagan tracks them, shoots off the husband. Cool, just conveniently get rid of a potential threat without a good buildup. Thanks movie! Jagan gets to Arya, but Devki distracts him which led Arya to escape. By the way, Jagan has a fucking gun. If he went on to kill the husband, he might as well killed Arya, THEN Devki. But no, this bald guy was also stupid and let Arya escape, and use a plastic to kill Devki. DK and Matthew warned Devki that Jagan was a hardcore criminal, but Jagan never bothered to shoot Devki in the head after suffocating her, making sure she's dead?? Never heard of double-tap have we, dumbass?? So much for hardcore criminal.
And the final confrontation, the supposed climax WHICH IS IN THE FINAL 20 MINUTES OF THE FILM xD Devki gets to Jagan to save Arya, but Jagan wins again. Dude, just fucking shoot her already if you're a so-called hardcore criminal! You even shaved your head for this! And then, the writers throw in a deus-ex-machina plot device and puts Matthew in there. How? Because DK, being the 'convenient' character that he is, had a camera that showed Jagan wanting to kill Devki, that led to Matthew arriving at the scene. How fucking convenient. There's a scuffle, but Devki now has the gun and neutralizes Jagan.
Matthew picks up his gun and joins in, but slowly walked towards Devki to give him the gun WHILE LOOKING AWAY AT JAGAN, WHO WAS JUST A FEET AWAY. Dude, you're a fucking policeman. At least stay your eyes on the suspect, you moron! And then, Devki just went full on Naruto Uzumaki and used Talk-No-Jutsu on Matthew, AND THEN MATTHEW WAS LIKE "YEP, SURE. SHOOT THE FUCKER." LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK?! XD If you're going to let her shoot him anyway, why stop her in the first place?? You just wasted our time! And you're a law enforcer to boot! You're supposed to uphold the law, but because of a monologue, you throw that all away?? If it were me, Jagan smiles at Devki knowing she couldn't pull the trigger, confident that he'll live even though he'll be in prison. At least he's alive. Matthew tries to convince Devki to throw the gun, but Jagan chimes in to put salt in the wound. Devki does her speech, but Jagan will be like "bitch I don't give a fuck. What are you gonna do? Shoot me?" Then Devki does shoot him! Thinking that Devki had a point, and Jagan deserves it anyway, Matthew wipes off the prints on the gun. He puts Jagan's prints, and his own prints on it, to make it look like Matthew had to shoot Jagan.
Conclusion: Don't overdo a narrative so much so that it becomes unrealistically stupid. This isn't a fantasy film, and it should've had bordered on reality than some convenient plot devices and a convenient character that needs to see a dentist. It should've bordered more on reality since they were trying to portray the crime of rape and faulty justice system anyway. And finally, you don't put the climax at the end of the film without a proper wrap up.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Outstanding movie in which Sridevi has given a wonderful performance .This movie shows the real picture of our society where the laws n rule takes so much time to punish the guilty as well as in the movie mother makes her crazy to give justice to her daughter.
God is not everywhere thats why he has created MOM
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
The premise was interesting, another film about mom's taking revenge for their child. But it became campy and all was lost. LOL. Cant help but compare it to Kim Ki-duk's 'Pieta' and Korean film 'Mother' (2009) which have the same story which are both fantasic revengw films about moms. I guess the Koreans have the best mom stories. LOL