If you are a fan of the brand of cinema that Abhishek Chaubey loves to make - lacing dark, and often violent, dramas with humour that doesn't feel out of place - then you will absolutely love Sonchiriya. Sonchiriya: From Kai Po Che to Kedarnath, Here's Sushant Singh Rajput's Box-Office Report Card for the Last Six Years. Things get even further complicated by the arrival of a woman Indumathi (Bhumi Pednekar), who brings along a little girl, a survivor of a brutal rape attempt. The unexpected encounter kills almost half of their gang and creates a division among the survivors. Both Man Singh and Lakhan are haunted by the ghosts of their accidental victims and are looking to find the purpose of their existence.Ī robbery attempt at a wedding house turns disastrous when the police team led by a vindictive officer Virendra Singh Gujjar (Ashutosh Rana) attack them. Belonging to his gang is the morally conflicted Lakhan (Sushant Singh Rajput) and the hot-headed Vakil Singh (Ranvir Shorey). Man Singh (Manoj Bajpayee) and his gang of baaghis, or rebels, are one of the gangs in Chambal. Talking about the plot, the movie is set during the onset of former Prime Minister, the late Indira Gandhi's declaration of the Emergency. Neither it is a biopic like Paan Singh Tomar, though it certainly draws inspirations from real-life events and dacoits. But Sonchiriya doesn't make you go as queasy in the stomach as Bandit Queen does, even though it doesn't compromise on the grittiness. See the movie to know what I mean) and Tigmanshu Dhulia in Paan Singh Tomar. Of course, we have seen this path taken by Shekhar Kapur in Bandit Queen ( Sonchiriya feels like an unofficial spinoff of this. Sonchiriya: 5 Popular Dacoit Movies of Bollywood You Should Not Miss Out on Before Watching the Sushant Singh Rajput-Starrer. And perhaps made of a better moral fiber than the society that made them the way they are. That little scene broke away the perceptions we have of those moustache-twirling dacoits who terrorised Ramgarh, as Sonchiriya breaks them down into humans ruled by insecurities, fears and morals. The other character gives a derisive smile and says the movie was stupid as the dacoits were seen riding on horses. In a scene in the film, a cop asks a character if he had seen a movie whose poster was pasted on the nearby wall. You know the ones, where the daaku attack villages riding on horseback. It is a dacoit drama, a genre that has been so exploited by the Bollywood cinema in the '70s and '80s. Abhishek Chaubey's Sonchiriya is a beast of a different kind.