SONI, Streaming on Netflix

A not to be missed marvel

All these years, Ardh Sadhya lingered in your memory. The helplessness of the protagonist gnawed you. It was also reflection of our own helplessness about reconciling to the equations of power, often reconciling to passively accepting unacceptable situations.

After nearly 35 years, comes a version, that offers hope. It is just not the police officers who have challenges, it is just not that the women alone who have challenges, it is just not that Delhi alone has challenges. All of us fellow travelers seem to be affected in some way or the other by an exacerbated sense of power of minuscule few and a lack of empathy that seems to engulf us with a feverish speed leading to disrespectfully treating fellow humans resulting in a very cynical and skeptical society.

I liked the conflict, the confusion and the ensuing resolve. I loved the introduction of Amritha Preetham and her book Revenue stamp towards the end and leveraging it to invoke the necessary resolve. 

The ending is not an idealistic ending, but a realistic one, a path that we may either chose now or may be compelled to choose at some point of time. 

We may need tonnes of the idealist Soni, but we may need more Kalpana's to mentor and support Soni's.

There have been so many Soni's in the past, but Kalpana, is probably one of the loveliest woman that you could come across on the screen. 

Soni proves once again that strong characterization makes the narrative all the more credible and compelling.

There so much of debate on Netflix's role. Would we ever get to watch a movie like Soni, if Netflix, was not there. 

Even if this may qualify as Art house, this is highly recommended for everyone.