Haraamkhor (Film)

It was a lonely place where she had called him to meet. The place had to be lonely as they wanted to maintain anonymity to the world. Anonymous because they were respectable in the society and to maintain that identity they had chosen a lonely place where all their wrongs will be blown with the wind. And he did come because his hunger and satisfaction knew no boundaries. And as they met, the wind turned violent and the sun hid itself under the clouds. Slowly, he pulled her closed to himself and looked her in her eyes. The hunger in his eyes was so frightening that she surrendered herself in his arms transitioning into a state of complete satisfaction. It was as if, she had got what she expected and was now sure to feel it. And he hugged and kissed her, thrashed her completely in act of a savaging attack on the 15 year old minor girl. She had to be a part of this act because she had reached the age of adolescence and wanted to feel everything that can be labelled as “adult”. And he, a 35 year old adult had to do this because he knew she was vulnerable and would surrender to him. During this act of utter disgrace, the word “INTERMISSION” appears on the screen…

The lights were switched ON and I felt like vomiting. The film takes you to a very uncomfortable zone and who else other than Nawazuddin Siddiqui can do justice with this kind of role? Shweta Tripathi was equally phenomenal and did complete justice to her role. It was especially difficult for her because she being a 30 year old female played a character half her age. Before the movie started, I tried to avoid using the word "Haraamkhor", but during the movie, I must have used this word at least 10 times.

There were schools kids who add some light to this dark movie but in summary, the film handled the subject very delicately and did not cross over to obscenity. I felt the movie was somewhat dark for me but I also think that it had to be like that to pass on the message. After all, we do live in a dark world and the film just shows the reality!! The realities have a tendency to be darker than they seem!!!