Chhapaak

Graceful direction and a mature performance by a Bollywood A-lister, surrounded by a strong supporting cast, come together to make an uplifting movie.

Director Meghna Gulzar and Indian superstar Deepika Padukone are affecting without excess in this fact-based drama about the aftermath of a horrible crime.

Chhapaak is powered by good intentions and progressive messaging but the film is undermined by a flawed screenplay.

Deepika Padukone's performance and Meghna Gulzar's direction ensure that Chhapaak is like a splash that leaves you misty with emotions, if not entirely drenched...

Yes, it's worthy, but it's also very watchable.

Like everything else in Chhapaak, the romance between Amol and Malti... takes its time to evolve. But when it does, the director is at her very best.

However, despite these effective performances it seems like the film has nothing to say post interval. Although Deepika "looks" her part as the acid attack survivor, the events seem more like a reconstruction rather than a comprehensively built story.

If the conversation around acid regulation was dying down, Gulzar's film beautifully reinvigorates it and not simply due to the Deepika Padukone stimulus package.

Meghna Gulzar has once again shown it's possible to marry art with mart.

Despite the heaviness of heart you feel while watching, writer-director Meghna Gulzar and co-writer Atika Chohan succeed tremendously in not make this a sob story, while never for a moment forgetting that Malti's existence is harder than most women...