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‘Ghawre Bairey Aaj’ Is a Feisty Political Movie That Pulls No Punches

Aparna Sen dedicates Ghawre Bairey Aaj (The Home and the World, Today) to the memory of Gauri Lankesh. Much like Lankesh, who was killed at her home in Bangalore in September 2017, Nikhilesh, Sen’s protagonist, is gunned down at his doorstep as he returns home from work one night.

Two whole years after the Lankesh murder, her assassins are yet to be brought to justice. For now, only the minor operatives of the murder plot seem to have been nabbed, while the big fish are not merely all at large, they remain in the shadows.

Sen’s film, however, refuses to hem and haw about who Nikhilesh’s killers are. Ghawre Bairey Aaj not only foregrounds the political ecosystem that Nikhilesh found himself up against, it also points unflinchingly to the political formation that liquidated Nikhilesh. It is one of the movie’s great strengths that it manages to make this unequivocal statement with complete artistic integrity.

The filmmaker’s point of departure is the well-known Rabindranath Tagore novel, …Click here to read the full story