Movie review ARTICLE 15

Article 15

"How many roads must a man walk down / Before you can call him a man? / 

How many seas must a white dove sail, / 

Before she sleeps in the sand?" 

-Bob Dylan

Article-15 is a socio-political movie by Anhubhav Sinha.The movie tells a story based in reality, and builds on the 2014 Badaun rape case, in which two teenage women were murdered in Uttar Pradesh. The women were from the Dalit caste, seen as the lowest on the ladder. The police say the women, who were hanged in public, were not raped, however the families to this day insist that they were. How system is itself corrupted is well portrayed by Anubhav sinha. Protagonist (Ayan Ranjan), Ayushmann Khurrana's role is worth admirable. Nishad(Zeeshan Ayyub) and Gaura(Sayani Gupta) plays a chief role as fighters among this corrupt and powerful discriminate system.

Our 'Indian Constitution, Article 15' gives 'Right to equality'. But in the words of George Orwell,  "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Our Indian constitution gives equality to all citizens but question is that, Is all citizens are treated equally? Discrimination on the name of cast, class, gender or race is a crime though we find it even today not only in some backward areas but also around us , so-called 'civilized or high-civilized society'. Now-a-days we do not ask someone's cast directly, but we ask their full name! Many time I have observed even in academic competition that I was asked about my full name, I don't know how and why it matters!

This movie discovers societal issues especially about girls & caste discrimination issues. Anubhav Sinha reflects this through this movie in this so-called  (21st)modern century, two girls are raped only for their demand for increasing daywage 25₹ to 28₹ and because of their strike. They are not only raped but also hanged out to the tree to show their cast's status of minor or take down a peg.

In the movie, one of the most notable scene(satire) is that a police take care about a dog outside the police-station and regularly feeds biscuits to dog but doesn't care about other caste's people or has no value of them as animals also.

This film is political and social satire. Anubhav Sinha raises the question through this movie that 'Right to equality is only framed in our Constitution. Not even a single dialogue or background music of this movie is worthless. Through the ages common man is struggling for their common rights in society and no one knows, how far still needs to struggle!

People don't want to destroy their illusion or rather we can say they don't want to come across the reality and truth of their life but they have a fond of reading a life as a form of story.


Just think a once:

We believe that it happens only in some of the particular areas but just see around us and our community. Do we allow them to live near by us or next to us? Though it seems it is abolished or we have talked as it is abolished but everything happens surrounding us and most of us believe that  it is not problematic that is the biggest problem of our society.