The 2008 double homicide of housekeeper Hemraj, 45, and 13-year-old Aarushi Talwar, a little girl, is the basis for the movie Talvar. Meghna Gulzar and Vishal Bhardwaj performed a fantastic job at developing the tale concept, and they also successfully incorporated the majority of the plot twists into the film. Casting was flawlessly executed. The movie does slow down a little towards the middle, but you won’t feel bored because the plot is so compelling. Talvar serves as the title of the film because this crime actually occurred in a family with that surname. However, in the movie, it is said that Talvar is a sword, which according to law signifies “Police” or “Punishment.” Sword symbolizes either the police or one’s actual surname. The film had an international release as Guilty on October 2, 2015, and it has an imdb rating of 8.1.
One of such refreshers, Talwar never fails to make its viewers aware of how frail and weak this nation’s system is. By focusing on the true systemic scourge, the movie did a fantastic job. Internal politics have always run rampant in every organisational structure in our democracy. Unfortunately, every aspect of our culture has been instilled with the horrible idea of “pull someone’s leg and drag him down to take his place.” In the pursuit of their own greed and power, people frequently lose their moral sense. One of the best instances of this dirty politics is the Aarushi murder case. The movie is filled of inept people in positions of authority and enormous responsibility. You can witness officers acting immaturely and breaking protocol from the very beginning of the film. They treated the victim and her family with ignorance and disrespect. Since they were receiving a lot of media attention and didn’t want the general public to learn about their poor work, they put the entire blame on the family in order to dismiss the case as quickly as possible despite the lack of proof. They labelled Aarushi’s father “characterless” and slut shamed her. Over time, statements were altered and the evidence was tampered with. Throughout general, there are numerous scenes in the movie where you have this constant impulse to punch somebody.
This is just a clever interpretation, basically a brilliant idea of how events might have transpired. The Aarushi case was convoluted and complicated enough for anyone to learn the real truth. So, one should use caution and avoid mistaking this movie for a documentary. The unfortunate thing about this case is that the police didn’t do their job well and lost a lot of important evidence earlier which may have helped prosecute the accused! The movie’s script is quite accurate and free of factual mistakes.
The keen acting of Irfan Khan and the struggle his character has gone through is impeccable. He is presented as a sharp, sardonic, and darkly humorous CDI (CBI) officer. As a result of the police’s failure to reach a conclusion and defamation of Aarushi’s parents for the murder, he is introduced to the scene during the initial CDI inquiry. He interacts pleasantly with the other police officers. after learning that the cops were careless with the crime scene and the evidence, he used to slyly tease them, which demonstrated his humour. The scene where both the investigative team was called to a conference to discuss the case’s resolution toward the end of the film, in my opinion, had the best portrayal of his character. Every question posed had a response from him. He destroyed every hypothesis put forth by the opposing investigative team. Even in this movie, he managed to amuse the audience through his character. The characters of Aarushi’s parents acted by Konkona Sen Sharma (Nutan Tandon, Shruti’s mother) and Neeraj Kabi (Ramesh Tandon, Shruti’s father) was amazing, although they didn’t have much dialogues, they did a fantastic job portraying their roles.
Aside from the performances, the screenplay is the strongest aspect of this film. Every scene has a fascinating element, such as Irfan serving drinks to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper explaining Nepali slang to Ashwin, the careless policeman’s justification for not getting cooler fingerprints, the same police officer just ordering another constable to call forensic officials and their carelessness results in the loss of an important piece of evidence, or Irfan’s assistant betraying him in exchange for his promotion and so on.
Irrespective of the investigation, Talwar were sentenced to life imprisonment but were released after serving for four years in the jail due to lack of evidences.
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