Soni - Film Review
Soni (Geetika Vidya Ohlyan) is a young sub-inspector of Delhi Police. Her superintendent IPS officer Kalpana (Saloni Batra) and her team are into a decoy operation for the girls’ safety at night. Kalpana finds Soni apt for the operation, but she is too aggressive and short-tempered. She is the fearless woman who tries not to lose her mind on the criminals. She does right, but it doesn’t come under the protocol. If it does then, it doesn’t come under the external protocol made by businessmen and politicians. Both Kalpana and Soni fights every day in their personal and professional lives.
Kalpana is the kind of officer who teaches Soni the right thing in the Police Station and then comes at her home with food when she is out of the cylinder. They both bear the consequences of Soni’s fight with the misbehaved criminals. Kalpana’s husband who is in higher post suggests behaving like an IPS officer and not to loosen up. Kalpana regularly hears from her mother-in-law and relatives of not having a child till the age of thirty-two which is a result of her formal and cold bonding with her husband. Soni is dealing with her husband Naveen, she doesn’t live with, who don’t earn something steady and solid.
The long takes and different aspect ratio seem favorite for the filmmakers of the festival cinema. The performances hence are praiseworthy. The film otherwise doesn’t leave up to the mark as the narrative is very linear and the screenplay not so uncommon.
There is always a challenge for a filmmaker to tell the backstory of a character when needed. Here the director Ivan Ayer fails to overcome that when Naveen and Soni meets and talks after a stone pelting at her house and discusses their past. It was a forced and fake addition into the story as it sounded like they directly want us to inform what was happened. Even when Soni tells him that, ‘Maine jab aankhe kholi to tum kahin nahi the’ apparently looks misplaced in the vibe of this execution. But on the other hand, there are some dialogues like Kalpana’s sister-in-law tells her about sex that, ‘Tum Capricorn log sab kuchh khud se hi karna chahte ho’ which is smart and witty.
It is an influential inclusion of the autobiography by Amruta Pritam called ‘Rasidi Ticket’ in association with Soni. The detailing also makes us feel good like in one scene the marks of Soni rubbing moist hands on the kurti remains there as it is for the further shots too.
The carelessness of Soni was shown shrewdly with no cylinder and clothes clipped off to the neighbor’s house for days. But somewhat ruined by making the neighbor tells us what we see. Though she was there as the representative of society as she recommends to put on some sindoor on her head to stay away from the boys staring.
The director succeeds a little in representing the social issue with the beautiful sisterhood.
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