I took my time to watch the latest Vidya Balan starrer Sherni. I groaned: ‘Not another woke film’, since I had started and abandoned it thrice over, unable to get into the mood of Amit Masurkar’s film, currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
And then, suddenly, it happened! I found myself inside a beautiful forest in Madhya Pradesh, following the tragic fate of a tigress and her two cubs, as a quietly determined, newly appointed forest office (brilliantly played by Vidya Balan) fights a battle she knows she is not likely to win.
This is Masurkar’s third film, and my first Masurkar experience. I had skipped the national award-winning Newton (2017), which was India’s official entry to the Oscar’s and made a mainstream star out of Rajkummar Rao, playing a fiery election officer who is raging against a corrupt system. Masurkar’s first was Sulemani Keeda (2014), a comedy, I had zero knowledge of or real interest in.
Let us call Sherni my virgin Masurkar movie—one that has left me panting for more.
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