Review Badlapur: A Flawed But Stylish Thriller

 Apart from the woman who is shot point blank in the opening sequence, Badlapur has four other women over whom both the hero and the villain ride roughshod with impunity.

Liak's mother, a dancing girl, a social worker and a woman who runs a Pune restaurant.

 All of them are scorned, pushed around and humiliated at will. Unless this approach is meant to signify the amoral depths that men are capable of sinking to when pushed to a corner, it can only be construed as unhealthily sexist.

 But audiences that are willing to take the misogyny of Badlapur in their stride might find it riveting enough as a thriller.

 The film should be of special interest for all the Varun Dhawan fans out there. The young actor ventures out of his comfort zone and dons the garb of a grim and gloomy revenge-seeker.

 He does a fair job, but when he is up against Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who articulates a range of subtle emotions with great economy of means, he is hard-pressed to retain his consistency.

 Badlapur has a competent supporting cast although most of the actors are seen on the screen for an average of two-and-a-half scenes each.

 Huma Qureshi gets the meatiest of the secondary roles and, as always, makes the most of the opportunity.
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