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Court

2014

Chaitanya Tamhane

Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Usha Bane ...

6.4

388

Drama A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"An impressive debut that flays alive India’s judicial system thanks to an intelligent, superbly understated script"	POS
United States	Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Chaitanya Tamhane emerges as one of the world's most accomplished and promising film-makers under 30 with his quietly steely legal drama 'Court', a bluntly-titled chronicle of politically-motivated injustice."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[A] quiet, devastating critique of the antiquated Indian legal system (...) the film conjures an absurdist nightmare of bureaucratic incompetence, indifference and social inequity"	POS
United States	Farran Smith Nehme New York Post	"Tamhane's quiet techniques build to pure, cold fury. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"'Court' is one of the strongest debut features in years."	POS

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