Soni is shot like an entirely third-person experience, but is scripted like a workplace drama, begging for us to know Soni and Kalpana inside and out. By tracking them instead of giving them space to take up the frame while the camera sits, it always seems like these two characters are too far out of reach, and in a movie of this type, that is a death knell.
Soni
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India · 2018
1h 37m
Director Ivan Ayr
Starring Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Saloni Batra, Vikas Shukla, Himanshu Kohli
Genre Drama
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Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana, have collectively taken on a growing crisis of violent crimes against women. However, their alliance suffers a major setback when Soni continues to get into violent situations while on duty, raising concerns about her temperament.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
The strength of the film is its appealing characters brought to life by strong actresses.
With an intelligent, subtle script and camerawork so organically natural one doesn’t immediately realize that each scene is shot in one take, the film draws on a subject much in the news and spins it into a multilayered yet low-key study without preaching or sensationalizing.
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