Rating: ***1/2
Movie Tagline: "It's the people that are closest to you that cause you the most pain"
Director Avantika Hari's 'Land Gold Women' is a social and psychological drama movie. This film won India's National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English. This film deals with social issue of 'Honor killings'.
Professor Nazir Ali Khan murdered his daughter Saira, and now he is facing a court case for this. He is appears a very calm person with good record. Nazir is living in Birmingham, UK, he emigrated from India in 1980s. He is been mould in life of UK, but recently he is increasingly missing his routes and traditions in India. He had two children 17 year old Saira and 14 year old Asif Nazir Khan. Nazir is traditional Muslim family person; he wanted to marry his daughter Saira to a Muslim boy from distant Lucknow city in India, without the consent of Saira. Saira wanted to study more and she had a British boyfriend.
Then what happens tell the movie...
What situations make the very calm appearing Nazir to murder his daughter...? What her daughter did that make Nazir was so angered on her and why.
This film deals with honor killings social issue. It shows how cultural and traditional thinking and social environment make even a very calm person to commit such a brutal crime. Performances given by all actors are very good, direction is also very good. But story is little slow and turns and twist are less, so it may not interest to viewers of normal Bollywood masala movies.
Good points of film are its very good performances by actors, good direction, and nicely dealing with the social issue. While some bad points can be its slow story, and no usual Bollywood masalas, twists turns in story.
It will be liked by fan of social issues & reality based movies and fan of good acting performances & direction film.
Do not expect fast paced movie.
Reviewer Verdict: This film can be watched.
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