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Parched Movie Review

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Review for the film " Parched"

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Runtime: 1 Hour 58 Minutes

Certificate: A

Released: 23-09-2016

Genre: Drama

Similar To: Amar Singh Chamkila, Krispy Rishtey, Love Sitara, Colourrs Of Love

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CAST & CREW

Pooja Joshi

Chandan Anand

Surveen Chawla

Harshdeep Kaur

Kalpana Patowary

Neeti Mohan

Adil Hussain

Hitesh Sonik

Lehar Khan

Swanand Kirkire

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Radhika Apte

Ajay Devgan

Sumeet Vyas

Riddhi Sen

Aseem Bajaj

Chetan Sharma

Kamala Devi

Mukesh Chhabra

Sayani Gupta

Leena Yadav

Anil Nair

Mahesh Balraj

Nancy Nisa Beso

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Producer:

Ajay Devgan

Aseem Bajaj

Gulab Singh Tanwar

Leena Yadav

Rohan Jagdale

Music Director:

Hitesh Sonik

Editor:

Kevin Tent

Director:

Leena Yadav

Supporting Actress:

Radhika Apte

Surveen Chawla

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Farrukh Jaffar

Nancy Nisa Beso

Pooja Joshi

Sayani Gupta

Costume Designer:

Ashima Belapurkar

Art Director:

Aman Mohan Vidhate

Pradip Redij

Lyricist:

Swanand Kirkire

Co-Producer:

Russell Carpenter

Director of Photography:

Russell Carpenter

Executive Producer:

William Horberg

Kevin Tent

Anirudh Tanwar

Hughes Winborne

Associate Producer:

Anil Nair

Heidi Vogel

Casting Director:

Mukesh Chhabra

Screenplay Writer:

Leena Yadav

Production Designer:

Amardeep Behl

Playback Singer:

Neeti Mohan

Kalpana Patowary

Harshdeep Kaur

Alamgir Khan

Swanand Kirkire

Supporting Actor:

Riddhi Sen

Naveen Borana

Sumeet Vyas

Mahesh Balraj

Karandeep Singh

Lehar Khan

Dinesh Pradhan

Chandan Anand

Adil Hussain

Chetan Sharma

Actress:

Kamala Devi

empty:

Hansa Tiwari

Anuradha Adwani

Ajay Gehlot

Shyam Panwar

Tanya Sachdeva

Tarun Jasor

Ramesh Ji

Priyanka Khan

Prince Gehlot

Praveen Choudhary

Neelu Pathak

Daddi Pandey

Deepak Gawde

Kusum Awasthi

Kanwar Jagdish

VN Sharma

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What is this Parched all about? Will it strike the right chord with us? Read further to know.

Plot

The movie takes place in a North-Western village in India and the actors converse in a peculiar slang. The incidents like child marriage, financial constraints, male domination, drunken tantrums by the husband, are all exposed in the film. The women live in a world that is aimed at controlling their desires. The three leady lady of the film share a unique bond with them and they share their grievances with each other. They have their own moments of sufferings but still somewhere they create tiny pieces of joy. That too breaks into pieces. What makes the women, especially the three protagonists, Radhika Apte Radhika Apte, an Indian actress was born on Sept 7 >> Read More... , Tannisshtha Chaterjee, and Surveen Chawla Surveen Chawla is one of the leading actress in th >> Read More... , continue with their bruised life? You have to watch the movie to understand it.

Star Performances

Tannishta shines in the role as a widowed woman, who is, in all ways, trying to tame her immature son. The sequences that she shares with her ailing mother-in-law keeps the audiences hooked to the seat. As for Radhika Apte, she is sure to get your cheers, as she plays the distressed wife an alcoholic husband with ease. But the real show-stealer is Surveen Chawla who enacts the role of a sex worker. Her character may seem odd in the social context, however she does a phenomenal job.

Analysis

Parched, a directorial venture by Leena Yadav Leena Yadav, a film producer, a director, a screen >> Read More... (who has directed movies like Teen Patti Click to look into! >> Read More... and Shabd), makes us experience something that is somewhat upsetting yet interesting. The three lead women had their share of worse moments in life and the director showcases how Indian woman are still facing the plight of being suppressed by the male gender. To be precise, it shows as though the woman is always supposed to serve him. Also, the movie is somewhat a hard-hitting alarm bell as it deals with the women’s tryst with oppression.

What’s there?

You tend to empathize with the ladies of the film.
Russell Carpenter (who had received the Academy Award) brings before our eyes the parched scenario in an excellent manner.
The way the director showcases the plight faced by the women who are scapegoats to the society’s whims and fancies is cmmendable.
Classic dialogues like what will others think (which is so common in our society) sends the real message of the film.
The title Parched is an appropriate description of the village.
The editing is par excellence.

What’s not there?

The film deals with the plight of a plethora of women and their issues and somewhere loses focus. But again, the film is visually appealing which compensates for this negative.

Verdict

The director should be applauded for raising a question or two to the society, which applies more severe standards to women. The movie, in many ways, is a must watch.