Film Review: Dasvi top? Ah, not really!

Updated On: 08 April, 2022 07:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar

Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan plays the incarcerated CM, Ganga Ram Chaudhary — more specifically modelled on Haryana politician, Om Prakash Chautala, I suppose

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Dasvi

Dasvi
On: Netflix
Dir: Tushar Jalota
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Yami Gautam
Rating: *1/2

The state this film is fictionally set in is named Harit Pradesh, although it’s decidedly Haryana, where the sitting Chief Minister lands in jail over a scam, while his wife (Nimrat Kaur) takes over reins of power — that, in turn, hearkens back to Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Bihar, from the ’90s. The piece of fantasy within all of this, I suspect, is that the said, imprisoned, de-facto CM gets treated like any other inmate, within the jail compound; thrown into manual labour, etc.

Because the officer-in-charge (Yami Gautam; think of her as Kiran Bedi) is a strict stickler for rules/protocol of sorts. If only the public perception on the independence of bureaucrats (state police, included) was anything close to what we watch in this movie. Like Lalu, who’s more recently faced much rougher terms in jail, since not in power — maybe the lead character should’ve been cast as an opposition leader, rotting in prison, instead. But you needn’t pain yourself looking too much for realism here.

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