Rating: ***1/2
Movie Tagline: “Pyaar ki saza maut? Kab tak?”
Director Ajai Sinha's Khap is a social and romantic drama. It shows about an ideology of some rural villages in India in which same gotra (clan) marriage is prohibited.
Omkar Singh Chaudhary is the leader of khap (a group of around 84 villages in rural area of Haryana, Rajashtan, and Uttar Pardesh), who orders to murdering anybody who try to marry in same gotras (clan) in the name of Honor killing.
Ria who is grand daughter of Omkar lives in Delhi with her father Madhur Chaudhary. Madhur had left village because of differing ideology with his father. Ria loves her Internet chat friend Kush J. Mitter, both of them have told each other that they live out of India without being aware that they both study in same college. Finally they met and fall in love.
Situations take turns and Ria starts to live with her grand father Omkar. Ria and Kush married with the agreement of Omkar. But later they come to know that they however of different gotra, but belongs to same khap. And even same khap marriage is prohibited.
What happens then tells the story...
Will Chaudhary follow his age old ideology... or will he help her grand daughter...
Movie though shows khap inhuman verdicts. Movie is the love story with the background of khap. Performances of all seniour actors are good. Rests of actors are ok. Later part of movie is quite predictable.
Movie is successful in showing the ideology of the khap and their dominating verdicts.
Direction, story, and screenplay are good.
What bad in movie is it lost the noble purpose of movie to showing inhuman behavior of some groups, and instead directed itself in a love story.
Movie will be liked by those who like socially meaningful movie.
Do not expect that movie is mainly based on Khap, Khap is only the sub-plot of movie.
Reviewer Verdict: Movie can be watched.
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