BARKHA MADAN MOVIE
The movie explores underlying themes of globalization, cross immigration and women empowerment. Also Read - Babloo Happy Hai trailer: It will tickle your funny bone a bit! Surkhaab was screened at some of the best international film festivals such as the Madrid International Film Festival and Commfest Festival in Toronto to name a couple and is the winner of the prestigious award for the Best Foreign Language Film at the London International Film Festival 2013. It also stars Sumit Suri, Vinita Malik and Naresh Gosain in supporting roles. Also Read - Is Naagin 3 actress Surbhi Jyoti dating The Test Case fame Sumit Suri?ĭirected by Sanjay Talreja, Surkhaab stars the talented actress Barkha Madan in the lead role of a strong woman named Jeet. The movie will have a limited release on in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Amritsar under PVR Director’s Rare. The drama thriller Surkhaab is an intriguing journey of a woman who gets swamped with unexpected events, when she illegally migrates to Canada to be with her younger brother. The movie that has traveled several continents, winning praises at various international fests, is all set to see the light of day in India. In its more sharply focussed moments, however, it is still a tense, moving indictment of the cruel trade in human lives, as well as a tour de force role for an actress so in touch with the human condition she has devoted her life to improving it.This limited release film has been winning awards at various international film festivals. Talreja’s take on refugee abuse doesn’t quite have the hard-edge of Dee McLachlan’s local effort The Jammed(2007), despite his fluent, unobtrusive style. In contrast to the story, Madan’s Jeet always appears entirely believable and grounded the actress makes every emotional beat stick in a commanding performance (one which, admittedly, leaves some of her cast mates behind). Where Surkhaab finds its greatest strengths is in the human interplay and its portrayal of the very real problems faced by the vulnerable, disenfranchised, and exploited.
The film’s second half is not so adroitly handled, devolving into a rather too rote conclusion for the plot’s primary MacGuffin and a public standoff that feels perfunctory and familiar. Rastogi, who intercuts past and present events with precision. The B-movie plot mechanics are kept at bay for the film’s first half thanks to the swift, skilful editing of Archit D. Fleeing as the others are taken, she undertakes an odyssey to find her brother, all the while unwittingly becoming a pawn in a smuggling racket that forces her to outwit underworld forces. Jeet’s woes begin as soon as she arrives with her designated contact a no-show and her group denied their forged passports and subsequently ferried to a remote location. With legal passage beyond her means, she employs the services of charming but devious facilitator of illegal passage, Balbir (Naresh Ghosain), who, along with smiling heavy Kuldeep (Sumit Suri, a standout), controls the trafficking of refugees to all corners of the globe. Madan plays Jeet, a strongly independent Punjabi woman and former judo champion who lives comfortably with her mother (Vineeta Malik) but longs for a new life in Canada with her brother Dan (Reeza Sholeh). Madan’s Jeet always appears entirely believable and grounded She attended the film’s Australian premiere at Perth’s recent Revelations Film Festival in her ceremonial robes and sans the flowing locks she sports onscreen. Viewers should seek out her wonderful performance in what is her first lead and, most likely, last role since filming wrapped on this Indian/Canadian co-production, the strikingly beautiful and talented actress was ordained a Buddhist nun and will now serve her faith.
REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: The tragedy of international human trafficking is writ large on the face of Barkha Madan, the lead actress in Sanjay Talreja’s debut feature, Surkhaab.
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