Chakravyuh – Movie Review
Cast of the film:
Chakravyuh (Puzzle) is an Indian political, dramatic and thriller movie which shuffles the audience with its suspicious scenes, which is directed by Prakash Jha, starring Arjun Rampal in the lead role with Abhay Deol, Esha Gupta, Manoj Bajpayee And Anjali Patil in supporting roles.
Plot of the film:
Chakravyuh aims to be a well-explained movie, to highlight the issue of Naxalism in India and how it has been a headache for the biggest democratic country and taking the Indian Youth to fight against its own national soldiers. But the movie failed to be the topmost rank in the audience in spite of explaining a hidden reality while the film was released on 17th of August 2012 at 1100 cinemas in India.
Story of the movie:
(Spoilers ahead!) Adil Khan (Arjun Rampal) is a well qualified and very young SSP of Bihar police who is sent to Nandighat,(a small town in Bihar state) when 84 policemen with a brave SSP get martyrdom. As the days pass, Adil comes to know that the movement is led by Rajan (Manoj Bajpayee) who controls the area by spreading fears to every opposition leader and enormous businessmen. And then the determined SSP feels helpless here as he has never felt in his whole life.
Then at the same time re-enters his friend Kabir (Abey Deol) who has been a very aimless folk and wandering just, and his only worship is friendship with his deepest loyalty to Adil Khan. As he never wants his friend to be hurt and pained. Then he decides to get in Naxals’ group to be a spy of Adil Khan and plan to end the story together very soon, and Adil agrees despite the enormous fear.
As very soon, Kabir gets to the group and wins their trust, and he secretly starts to inform Adil, who attacks a lot of gorilla camps of Naxals by killing their comrades and capturing Rajan himself within a few weeks, as they push the movement on the back foot.
Afterwards, when Kabir lives with scrubby and ragged natives and villagers. Then he finds them the victims in the name of development which never can give them bread but to snatch their own lands forcefully, and he becomes sympathetic with folks who live in the darkness of hope.
As the story fills with more suspense, Kabir finds realizing a very dedicated and kind-hearted woman who is an area commander Juhi (Anjali Patil) who has lived in the ocean of pains like no one yet, to whom he falls in love so does Juhi, but the confusions in Kabir’s heart start growing fast and furiously as he finds himself in a trapped (Chakravyuh) through which he can’t take a turn to somewhere as the dilemma starts exploding ghostly.
And then things happen out of his control where he can’t choose who to support or who to not, friendship or love?
And till Kabir can make a way to resolve the puzzle but a war begins ferociously which would change the future of the region or destroy it and a war which has to end the story of one character, Kabir or Adil?
An unspoken question in the movie:
When a policewoman asks an old comrade of Naxals, who is a professor and has graduated from Oxford International University, that if you accept democracy, then why are you fighting against the world’s biggest democracy? Then he answers, I never believe in such kind of democracy which is only for traders and investors not for the poor and scrubby villagers whose children can’t study at a University which is built on their own land.
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