CHHAPAAK: What’s not to love in a movie like “Chhapaak”? What’s not to love in a performance as endearing as the one of Deepika Padukone? This movie grows on you like an emotion and makes you laugh and cry but never allows you to pity the acid-attack victim. Most of the movie is a courtroom drama that is realistic and engaging. The statistics at the end show the helplessness of the situation. Deepika Padukone displays real guts and gumption in playing a character with a distorted face at the peak of her career. The movie does not resort to melodrama and brings out the various nuances of an acid attack victim. The movie brings forth a heinous crime in India and how the male dominated society calibrates women according to their beauty. Gulzar’s lyrics are beautiful and Meghna Gulzar’s direction is crisp and matter of fact. With no prominent male lead and a female lead with a burnt face, the movie shows courage in bringing forth a subject as deplorable as rape and pays an ode to the human spirit and its relentless quest for esteem and dignity.
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