Inkaar Movie Reviews

‘Inkaar’ is another of Sudhir Mishra’s brilliances captured on celluloid. Don’t say a ‘no’ to this one.

The moviegoers have developed a taste for innovative, out of the box stories. Topics that were once considered taboo are being attempted on the Hindi screen. Pushing the envelope within commercial parameters is the new mantra. Known for attempting diverse stories in film after film, Sudhir Mishra takes on a hitherto untold topic for his newest venture INKAAR: Sexual harassment in a work environment. A film like INKAAR is extremely relevant

Good morning sunshine!” “Hello beautiful!” “Wish I were your clothes!” “Your husband’s so lucky!” Which one of these lines is a harmless well-meaning greeting and which one is a pass? Which one will send across a more-than-colleagues signal and which one is an innocuous workplace line? Is the ‘hello’ worded to make you uncomfortable or is it just a random welcome? Sudhir Mishra’s Inkaar tosses these how-thin-is-the-line questions and serves up

You know those cakes that look gorgeous in pictures but collapse when they bake? Inkaar is like that. Polished-looking, its edges - the tension of feeling harassed at work, office politics, ego flashes - hold rather well. But its centre collapses in a soft mess. Featuring advertising hot-shots Rahul (Rampal) and Maya (Singh), Inkaar shows the heat and dust from work- place lust. It begins with Rahul and Maya meeting in a swimming pool after an old affair

Sudhir Mishra leaves everything for the last 20-30 minutes. Suddenly, after a dreary first half, he brings his two main characters to life. As a viewer, it engrosses you because the primary concerns shared by Rahul (Arjun Rampal) and Maya (Chitrangada Singh) can be the story of any two young, ambitious people in the corporate world. But for that interest in the characters to really fire you up, Mishra drags you along with his plot presented in a docu/drama

Sexual harassment in the workplace isn’t the kind of premise that Hindi cinema tackles every other day. In that respect, Sudhir Mishra’s Inkaar is anything but an average Mumbai film. For the most part, it steers clear of the convenient certitudes that underpin popular movie narratives. Inkaar does not dabble either in ‘yes’ and ‘no’, or in black and white. ‘May be’ and ‘perhaps’, in other words a whole lot of grays, underline the conclusions

In the world of Sudhir Mishra, the 'set' where the real action unfolds is often the mind of his protagonists. The trademark shade is always grey and nothing finally emerges as what it seemed to be at first. Inkaar, Mishra's take on sexual harassment in the workplace, lives up to that pattern. Before anything, the film is an exercise in cerebral entertainment. If you were driven by the notion that Inkaar with its sexually volatile theme

Sexual harassment in the workplace isn’t the kind of premise that Hindi cinema tackles every other day. In that respect, Sudhir Mishra’s Inkaar is anything but an average Mumbai film. For the most part, it steers clear of the convenient certitudes that underpin popular movie narratives.

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Sixty-three years ago, in the classic Rashomon, director Akira Kurosawa showed us that truth is slippery, subjective and ultimately unknowable. In Inkaar, writer-director Sudhir Mishra attempts a similar take on sexual politics in the workplace. Two attractive, ambitious individuals work in an ad agency – Maya (played by Chitrangda Singh) and Rahul (played by Arjun Rampal). An incident takes place. We get two takes on the same story

Hear ye! Hear ye! A kangaroo court of sorts is in progress at the cool office of a Mumbai ad agency. The accused is alleged to be a slimeball. And the complainant is a bombshell who claims she has been sexually harassed. Wow, hot stuff? Hardly. Inkaar, directed and co-written by Sudhir Mishra, may be thematically topical and significant since it deals with the exploitation of women at the workplace, but it’s the director’s tamest work yet

It's ironic that director Sudhir Mishra's Inkaar hinges on the premise of sexual harassment and desire in the workplace, because this is a film that could leave you deeply frustrated. In the movie, an advertising agency CEO, Rahul (Arjun Rampal), is accused of inappropriate sexual conduct by its creative head Maya (Chitrangada Singh). This is an delicate theme and Mishra takes on prickly subjects like casual flirting, female ambition

Something as simple as a vibe can form something as enormous as an opinion. In a sexual context, to judge sociable from suggestive and vice versa in a part-liberal, part-conservative society is highly precarious. One person's idea of harmless flirtation could be another's criteria for inappropriate conduct. But under NO circumstances is exploitation okay. No matter what line of work one is in, at some point, every individual has to decide on his/her own

The way it begins, laying out a clear divide between a woman who claims she has been sexually harassed, and a man who counter-claims that she is totally off the mark, is a great draw. Because Maya ( Singh) is not a simpering lily. She is a professional, carving her way up in the cut-throat world of advertising, just the kind of woman who is the butt of your standard sexist jokes. And because Rahul ( Rampal) is no angel. He is Maya's boss

Inkaar Movie Review: Rating: 2/5 stars (Two stars) What’s Good: The beginning of the drama; the music. What’s ...

Inkaar could have been truly radical. But it becomes a film that prefers to cop out, rather than deliver on the promise it held out so bravely in its initial passages.

There are rare moments in Inkaar that click, like Mishra cheekily referencing his own film, when at an ad film presentation for a condom brand, Verma comes up with the tagline, Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahi. The film, though, comes nowhere close to that, or any other, Mishra film. If you’re wise, you’ll refuse the offer to watch Inkaar at the multiplex near you.

Sexual harassment at the workplace, office politics and the question of whether women can make it to senior management in misogynistic companies plague many professionals in India. To see all this depicted on screen, that too in a thriller is a novel idea in Bollywood. Director Sudhir Mishra starts off racily enough in “Inkaar” — portraying life in a trendy ad agency and sketching his characters along the way. Rahul Varma (Arjun Rampal) is the suave