**❤️**LANTRANI REVIEW : THIS SATIRICAL ANTHOLOGY BY NATIONAL AWARD WINNING DIRECTORS HITS THE BULLS EYE**❤️**

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Story: An anthology of three stories by national award winning directors taking a satirical view on the various social issues of rural India. Review: ‘Lantrani’ begins with ‘Hud Hud Dabangg’ - the very first story that hits the hardest. It’s a story about a policeman (Johnny Lever), who finally gets an important

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 job after being on desk duty for 25 years. He is given a loaded gun and a bullet to take a prisoner to court. But the turn of events on his way to the court completely changes his perspective towards the prisoner and the reason for his incarceration. Directed by Kaushik Ganguly and written by Durgesh

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 Singh, this is the best story among all three. It’s wildly entertaining, and is loaded with relevance and meaning. Johnny Lever is a revelation. The actor effortlessly imbibes his character’s inherent goodness and goofiness without missing a beat. Ditto for Jisshu Sengupta, whose performance is the beating heart

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 of this poignant and hard hitting story. Both the actors beautifully compliment each other’s performance. Then comes ‘Dharna Mana Hai’, featuring the talented Jitendra Kumar and Malyalam actress Nimisha Sajayan, who plays a scheduled caste woman, who gets selected as a first-time member

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 of the Sarpanch, but doesn’t have any real power. To fight the prejudice, she, along with her husband, decides to sit in on a silent protest outside the DDO office. Another national award winning director Gurvinder Singh helms this satire with nuanced writing (by Durgesh Singh) and able performances by

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 his lead actors. They excel in their roles without a single dialogue. The film moves at a slow pace but manages to hold the viewer's interest. The last short within the anthology is ‘Sanitized Samachar’ - a story of a defunct local news channel that is struggling to meet ends due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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 Its star anchor is quarantined with COVID, and the channel has no funds to pay its staff. But a ray of hope arrives in the form of a sponsor called ‘Covinaash’ - a revolutionary hand sanitizer that claims to protect against the pathogen like no other. Director Bhaskar Hazarika takes a swipe at manipulated

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 media and fake news along with rampant commercialisation of the news media itself. This one we found to be the weakest in its conclusion, although Hazarika’s story is quite entertaining. What makes ‘Lantrani’ a must watch is its choice of varied issues in a deeply problematic rural landscape of India.

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 Despite being a message-driven anthology, the writing isn’t preachy. The setting of the interiors of the country is deftly captured through nuanced cinematography (Sandeep Gn Yadav, Riju Das and Appu

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 Prabhakar) and production design (Dhananjoy Mondal, Manas Baruah and Anchal Bhalla). Overall, ‘Lantrani’ is a deeply moving and entertaining concoction of stories telling the bitter truths of our system that continue to remain a way of life.

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