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Hotel Mumbai (2018). A Wednesday (2008). Various direct TV and film content in the 2009 wave. None of them are about what happened between November 2008 and November 2012.

In that period: Kasab was tried in a special court under MCOCA and IPC Section 121 (waging war). Digital evidence was challenged. A defense lawyer was appointed despite public hostility. The case went through sessions court, Bombay High Court, and Supreme Court. Kasab was hanged in Yerwada jail in November 2012.

That four-year period is the subject of Prahaar. The judicial response to a terrorist attack. The courtroom as the site of justice delivery. This is a gap in our popular storytelling about 26/11 that seems obvious once you notice it.

Why did it take 15+ years for this film to get made? Does the trial feel less ""cinematic"" than the attacks themselves? Is there something about courtroom proceedings that Indian popular cinema has trouble dramatizing seriously?

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Cast: Ritwik Bhowmik, Rohini Hattangady, Ayesha Raza, Abhay Kaul, and more

We all know about the tr-fficking networks of the big people of this world, how they do what they do. Awarapan is an earnest attempt to capture a story set in 2007, where a person follows the orders of some master from the world of vices. He is at a crossroads because of his past, not knowing what to do.

Shooting-wise, I like how they remained authentic and kept Hong Kong (or some other Chinese city), because the scripts on various shops and all are undeniably in Chinese. I'm learning about scripts, and for me, this is a detail worth nitpicking.

However, there are a few unexplained stuff:Who is the kingpin behind the entire tr-fficking operation in shipping containers? How did Shivam and his friend go from India to Hong Kong?Except this stuff, I really really love this film. 4/5. Beautiful; gave us a moment frozen in time.

Really excited for the second part; will go and watch it to have my answers.