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Daman

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Daman
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What the film manages to do in its two long and excruciating hours is evoke sympathy for the distributors, theatre-owners and viewers who would have to suffer the effects of this much-awaited 'feminist' saga. Now for what the film attempts to represent. Durga (Raveena) is married into a freak-show of a family. Her husband (Shinde) is an untreated psychopath whose madness comes without a hint of method, her father-in-law's senile and demented, her mother-in-law's painfully tongue-tied for a reigning matriarch. The only redeeming feature of this family is a brother-in-law, Sunil (Suri), who is the cornerstone of humanity, justice and romantic charity. However, his psychopath brother is loath to marital responsibilities, his father to ordinary perception and his mother to human empathy. Sunil himself is sympathetic but that's because he's carrying a flame for his bhabhi, who in turn fancies him from the galleries. This is narrated through a script that at best seems shuffled by an unscrupulous brat, filmed on a handycam and set to a spooky jugalbandi reminiscent of Ramsay films. This goes on unabated until Sunil is annihilated by his brother and Durga decides to become a widow, escape to another town and start living with a Samaritan couple, all in rapid succession. Then suddenly the psychopath comes back to haunt Durga and her daughter Deepa (Raima). Faced with the recall of her former years, Durga strikes back with uncharacteristic violence. She kills and leaves you wondering why she waited so damn long.

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