

Towards a dead-end, and no wonder he continues speaking English in theĬourtroom even though it wins him neither favor nor friend. Clearly, he can afford to pick up a case so obviously headed His bourgeois friends, and shops for cheese and wine without looking at the The viewers follow Vora as he attends a posh club with They are all just cogs in an unfair machine. No character is a villain hell-bent on destroying His script, carefully structured but not gaudily so, considers theĬharacters’ lives outside the courtroom as essential to comprehending what they do once inside it. Tamhane takes the opposite means to achieve a Help viewers understand why people’s lives deeply influenced how they interpreted the law and cold, hard facts. The setting’s claustrophobic nature would Nearly 60 years ago, Sidney Lumet locked the “ 12 Angry Men” of a jury inside one room.

There are times when it feels as though the real accused in "Court" are India's judicial system and society. In the funniest scene in this surprisingly funny film, the Judge refuses to hear a case because the plaintiff, a woman, Joshi), who doesn’t care for anything except upholding his archaic morals and Together they’re in front of Judge Sadavarte (Pradeep ( Geetanjali Kulkarni), who couldn’t be bothered with the plight of Narayan or He’s up against the public prosecutor Nutan Vora ( Vivek Gomber), a well-educated and well-off lawyer

The stateĪlleges that a song he performed drove a manhole cleaner to commit suicide, and that he is therefore responsible for the man's death. In Mumbai, Narayan Kamble, who’s arrested on a bizarre accusation. “Court” deals with an aged Marathi folk singer living And yet, Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane’s firstįeature is a masterpiece, one of the best films of the year.
