The eponymous character of the movie Gargi, played by Sai Pallavi, is seen with her coworkers in the staff room of a school in the movie's opening scene. They witness a news broadcast about a group of teens being raped. She dismisses a coworker's observation that the flat depicted on television appears to be one in her neighbourhood. Her thoughts at that time turned to her upcoming marriage and the demands her lower middle-class family seemed to be facing from her boyfriend Pazhani's family. However, in the following scene, we can see that the news of the rape has affected her since we witness a flashback to a time in her own life. This is further demonstrated when she arrives home and expresses concern for her adolescent sister who hasn't yet come home. She then shifts her attention to her coursework and a fleeting romantic encounter.

Gautham Ramachandran describes how we typically register such news reports with such a setup. We hear, temporarily worry about ourselves, and then get on with our lives. But what if we participate in these reports? How does that affect how we live? We find out shortly after Gargi discovers that her security guard father Brammananda, 60, who works in the background, is also charged with participating in the gang rape that she had previously heard about. She thinks something must have gone wrong, but the police are sure he is one of the rapists. A family friend and prominent attorney named Banu Prakash (Jayaprakash) assures her that the police may have made a mistake and that he will help her father in court.

Gautham Ramachandran's Gargi, a masterfully filmed, sobering drama that plays out more like a suspenseful thriller, is a crucial movie in this #MeToo era. The text is multi-layered and effectively conveys the complexity of crimes involving sexual assault. Even though we go with Gargi, gautham doesn't merely focus on illustrating the difficulties that his protagonist's family is experiencing as a result of what may have been a hurried arrest by the police. He also demonstrates the difficulties faced by the police, the trauma experienced by the victim and her family, and even the urges that cause journalists to sensationalise such murders.

In the end, we realise how those incidents have helped her see her father and why she is so convinced of his innocence, even though as a woman and a survivor herself, she should be putting her trust in the young child accusing her father. The flashbacks that involve a young Gargi and her teacher, who abuses her, initially seem unnecessary additional character details. The ultimate twist, if you can call it that, at first seems a little hard to believe, but then we realise that it is frequently hard to believe that the murderer may be someone you might have hardly believed capable of doing such a horrifying crime.
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15/07/2022 10:20 AM