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MOM Movie Review: Sridevi, Magnificently Expressive, Is A Treat To Watch

Mom movie review: mom is what raveena tandon's maatr , wasn't: relevant, riveting and oddly rousing despite its grim theme..

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MOM has other assets, too, not the least of which is the outstanding quality of the performances that first-time director Ravi Udyawar extracts from his cast. Add to that cinematographer Anay Goswamy's adroit lensing and lighting, and you have a film that is consistently compelling. The visual compositions, an evocative interplay of light and shadows, create the palpable crevices of darkness where evil is afoot and resolute acts of defiance are plotted and executed. If there is any major grouse one has with MOM , it is with the editing. It's overly indulgent. The result: the film is 15 minutes too long. Be that as it may, MOM is what Maatr , Raveena Tandon's comeback vehicle released earlier this year, wasn't: relevant, riveting and oddly rousing despite its grim theme.

Where else could a story of a sexual assault and its bitter aftermath be set but in Delhi. However, the city isn't a mere backdrop here - it assumes a life of its own and serves as a milieu in which a culture of impunity thrives and where no woman is safe. While the film ventures into the nooks and crannies of the metropolis to capture its many divides, moral and social, the screenplay (Girish Kohli) steers clear of sensationalism. The director gets the Valentine's Day abduction and gang rape sequences out of the way quickly and without gloating over the outrageous nature of the incident. The sense of shock stems from the way the survivor is shoved into a gutter and left to die in the city's sludge - the camera that watches the SUV carrying the perpetrators from overhead moves closer to the lifeless girl and stops short of providing the audience an extreme close-up view. We see her next in a hospital bed dangling between life and death as her mother struggles to make sense of what has just happened to her daughter. The girl's businessman father Anand Sabharwal (Adnan Siddiqui) cuts short a New York trip and rushes back home. A top-notch Crime Branch cop Matthew Francis (Akshaye Khanna) is given charge of the case. The four perpetrators are quickly rounded up and a chargesheet is filed. A private detective (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) offers unsolicited help to the distressed mother.

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A fast-track court is set up to hear the case, the girl records her statement before the judge via video-conferencing and the parents are hopeful of a favourable verdict. But as it transpires, the criminals are let off owing to the lack of sufficient circumstantial evidence. The gutted mother's faith in the police and the law takes a beating. Devki decides, with the help of the sleuth she had shooed away earlier, to punish the men who violated her daughter. From here on, MOM assumes the form of a thriller centered on a woman out to settle scores with a bunch of dangerous men. From a conscientious schoolteacher, she mutates into a law-breaker.

While sticking to the established conventions of the genre, MOM finds just enough space to focus on a slew of human relationships. Even the minor ones, like Devki's bonding with two of transgender ex-students who repay their debt to her when she needs it the most or the detective's barely expressed love for his confident, outspoken daughter (who is seen in only one-and-a-half scenes), contribute meaningfully to the plot. Much of MOM is filmed on actual locations and its characters are believable. The police officer, for one, isn't a swaggering, smooth-talking gunslinger bent upon asserting his masculinity. Akshaye Khanna slips into the skin of this man with minimum fuss and delivers a performance that makes us wonder why we do not see more of him. Nawazuddin Siddiqui's darkly humorous gumshoe is among the more intriguing men that you would have seen in a Hindi film in recent years. Daya Shankar Kapoor, "DK for short", isn't a smug operator. His deadpan witticisms keep him - and the film - going as he attends to the risky job of ferreting out info for Devki.

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MOM Movie Review: Sridevi As Devki Has Reached The Zenith Of Effortless Acting, Nawazuddin A Surprise Package

MOM Movie Review: Sridevi as Devki has reached the zenith of effortless acting, Nawazuddin a surprise package

Mom movie review: sridevi lover shouldn't miss the movie. you though sridevi couldn't do any better better watch the film 'mom'.

Movie Name: MOM
Critics Rating: 3.5 / 5
Release Date: July 07
Director: Ravi Udyawar
Genre: Thriller

MOM Movie Review: A compelling drama, set in a grim theme, Mom has Sridevi in the titular role shouldering the film with Nawazuddin Siqqui, Akshaye Khanna and Pakistani actress Sajal Ali. The movie already created a sensation among movie buff owing to a number of reasons. Firstly, the veteran actress Sridevi was making a comeback in Bollywood after four years. Last, she was seen in Gauri Shinde's family drama English Vinglish. Secondly, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, being the personal favourite of many, can be seen in a jaw-dropping avatar of a personal detective. Sridevi plays the central character Devki Sabharwal whose teenaged daughter played by Sajal Ali is brutally raped by four deranged men. Will she be able to avenge her daughter?

Mom, as the name doesn't suggest even remotely, is a revenge drama based on a school teacher, Devki whose step-daughter Arya is brutally assaulted and raped by four men in a moving car. Though the case was brazenly narrating the crime, the witness and forensic reports were scrupulously manipulated by one of the acussed, who had a far reach in the world of crimes. Devki, who initially knocked the door of the law of to get justice for her daughter, is hope bereft. She loses every drop of trust in law and police she had in her and decides to take the matter in her own hands. Being a Biology teacher, she uses her learnings from the subject to vanquish the wrongdoers. She is kept up by a Daryaganj-based personal detective Dayashankar played by none other than the ace-actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui. When no one on the Earth could have imagined a 'Mom' and a simple school-teacher to conspire such criminal activities, Sridevi executes her plan with her pawn (DK). The rapists get the taste of their own whip when one by one each of them starts meeting their own fate.

Movie Review

Right from the first half of the film, the audience will get a mild deja vu from the recent Raveena Tandon film 'Maatr' where a woman avenges the rape of her daughter. Irony lies in the title of both the films whose names derive the meaning from the same word 'Mother'. The fact that 'Mom' differs from 'Maatr' is the big names studded in the star cast and a better execution of the story. Right from the beginning of the movie, the rift between the daughter and mother can be seen clearly. Sajal Ali, playing a daughter who can't cope up with the death of her mother and remarriage of his father, is just like any other teenage girl would be. She ends up into the most unfortunate night of her life when she decides to go to a farmhouse party with her friends. Her life takes an ugly turn when a boy she rejected along with his accomplices, gang rapes her in a moving car. The scene where a black SUV is seen toiling on the deserted roads of the metropolitan with a callous background score haunts the audience for a couple of minutes. Arya and her family's happy lives were devastated by the incident. Just like any other Bollywood crime flick, court extends a blind eye towards the case and acquitts all the four accused. This is where a normal person would have accepted the loop holes of the judicial system, but Devki is a rebellion. She seeks help from DK, who later becomes her co-conspirator to plan the revenge.

The end is somehow predictable. It's always th victory of good over evil. Satyamev Jayate! But it isn't easy. The climax is something that brought the movie somewhat lower than our expectations. When we're talking about Sridevi and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, cliches are the last thing we could expect from the film. In th end, Sridevi and the last rapist exchange some blows until the culprits points his gun towards her. But thanks to Akshaye Khanna who again puts the ball in Sridevi's court.

For Sridevi's lovers, this movie is a walk down the memory lane, where the gorgeous actress has once again mesmerised the audience with her acting skills. The word 'acting' itself doesn't fit well when we're talking about Sridevi as Devki. She has absorbed the role of a mother so deep in herself that we forget at a moment that she isn't the one we're seeing on the screen. Her histrionics have been constant throughout the film, except for the parts where she really blew our minds as mother whose daughter has been raped. Her realistic performance is going to give you a lump in your throat.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui has never disappointed the audience when it comes to acting. Give him a role, and he'll outlive it. Same he did with the character of DK in 'Mom'. His treacherous way of dressing can give someone an impression of being a villain. But analyzing his contribution to Devki's revenge, he's playing the 'Wazir' in the movie. Audience will develop a mixed feeling of sympathy and pride for this middle-class detective who steps ahead to help a dejected mother.

Worth mentioning here, A.R. Rahman's background score has raised the bar of the movie by two times. The film couldn't have been this intriguing without the blood-curdling and riveting background music and songs.

Overall, 'Mom' could have met the similar fate as that of Bollywood's previous revenge dramas, but the praiseworthy performance by every single of the cast is the saving grace of the movie.

To watch or not?

Sridevi fans cannot afford to miss this movie, where Sridevi breaks her own records of effortless acting. Despite the fact that it is Ravi Udyawar's first directorial venture, the film has lived up to the hype. With things right into their place, Mom is a must watch who're eagerly looking for some substance in Bollywood films.

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Movie Review: Mom

Mom Rachit Gupta , Jul 6, 2017, 20:13 IST

Cast: Sridevi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Akshaye Khanna, Sajal Ali, Adnan Siddiqui, Abhimanyu Singh Director: Ravi Udyawar Quick take: Intense, taut and gratifying thriller Rating: 3.5 stars

Mom is a film that excels in its cinematic moments. Its revenge based story is a little too familiar, but the treatment and the obsession with finer details make this thriller an engrossing experience. The film is peppered with strong dramatic moments that keep appearing every few minutes and each one leaves a lasting impact on the viewer. The core theme here is that of a mother, struggling to keep the relationship with her daughter alive. That intimate premise unfolds in a more familiar revenge story where an ordinary mother hatches an unlikely but murderous plot to bring vigilante justice to her daughter’s rapists. Mom is a heavy duty, darkly dramatic film that doesn’t mince its ideas. It’s a story full of brutality and shock. The dramatic punches are what make this film such a gratifying experience.

Sridevi plays Devaki, a teacher and a doting mother. Her family looks picture perfect with husband Anand (Adnan Siddiqui) and two daughters Arya (Sajal Ali) and the young Pihu. Arya doesn’t like to call Devaki, Mom. She addresses her step mother as simply Mam. Because Devaki is also her biology teacher. Devaki struggles to break into the good books of her teenage daughter. But she remains hopeful, resolute and positive. Things go haywire, when Arya is kidnapped at a party, gang raped in a car and then dumped to die in a gutter. The tragic series of event, create a massive stress on the mother-daughter relationship. While the mother weeps, wails and tears through your heart. The girl struggles to cope with her tragedy. She pushes the mother away even more, haunting the viewer and scaring them in the process. The first half of Mom crushes the viewers’ spirit, deserting all hope and innocence, with clinical precision. Director Ravi Udyawar’s treatment of the film is spectacular. The choice of back ground music, the unsettling camera movements, the sense of dread and despair is phenomenal. There’s a lot of thought put into crafting each scene, each shot of Mom. Anay Goswami’s cinematography and AR Rahman’s haunting soundtrack amplify the emotions and the drama. The writing by Ravi Udyawar, Girish Kohli and Kona Venkat Rao is detailed and intelligent.

Mom is not an easy film to watch. The stark power of the first half is quite overwhelming. It’s doesn’t help when Sridevi acts out of her skin. Every time she trembles and cries, she draws the viewer in. Every emotion that’s served up in Mom – despair, suffering, frustration, anger etc comes forth with Sridevi’s performance. Sajal Ali playing the distant daughter who suffers a horrible tragedy is great in maintaining the coldness of her character. The film also has Akshaye Khanna and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in supporting roles. Akshaye plays an honest and tough cop with great effect. But it’s Nawazuddin’s act as an eerie but cool private detective DK that steals the show. He’s not there in every scene, but every time he shows up, Mom’s entertainment value swells up. He handles the comedy, the drama and the heartbreak with ease. Scenes featuring both Sridevi and Nawaz are absolute delight to watch.

The biggest problem with the film is that the second half deviates from the dark and delicious themes of the first, to indulge in the revenge drama track. While the situations in the second half are written with perfect logic, they are bit lofty. The action and the suspense approach distracts from the much more powerful story of mother, daughter and a family slowly nursing itself out of tragedy. But that’s how it plays out. The crucial moment in the climax though, makes it all worth the while. Mom is quite literally a thrill-a-minute ride. Its scenes are powerful and the best part is, the effort put in by the actors. Director Ravi Udyawar crafts an intense, taut and gratifying thriller. It’s a must watch.

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Mom movie review: Brutal, terrifying and riveting

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Mom movie review: Brutal, terrifying and riveting

'The physical manifestation of love, weeping uncontrollably'

RATING: 3/5

Sridevi-starrer Mom is brutal and for the most part a terrifying yet riveting film. The film deals with the horror and trauma a rape victim experiences and debutant director Ravi Udyawar has done an outstanding job of balancing the drama with equal amount of shock, thrill and honest emotions. The movie doesn't make you cringe like recent thrillers such as Kaabil which also had a similar theme of being a revenge thriller centered around sexual assault.

Devki Sabarwal (Sridevi) is a high school teacher who is trying to win her over step daughter Arya, who doesn't quite warm up to her as the memories of Arya's biological mother still haunt the 18 year old.

As you might have guessed a gruesome crime is committed and Sridevi finds herself fighting for justice, her character is torn between being a helpless mother whose child is battling for her life and being an outsider trying to reach in as the same child does not acknowledge her as her mother. Imagine the emotional turmoil and Sridevi delivers yet another masterclass, even though she portrays a vulnerable visibly weak individual she looks you straight in the eyes and makes you realize what a truly gifted performer she is.

There's one scene where Sridevi walks in and lays her eyes on her daughter in the hospital bed, that 10 second scene where she just breaks down should be studied and there should be a lecture in acting schools on how to portray someone who is terribly shocked and deeply distressed it is like the physical manifestation of love weeping uncontrollably. Many of our leading stars have performed similar scenes including the greatest of all time - a young Mr Bachchan in the climax scene of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's cult classic Anand and even though these 2 scenes were completely different from one another as the situation was different dare I say I've never seen a better performance as far as a breakdown scene is concerned, not a patch on Sridevi.

The supporting cast including Abhimanyu singh, Sajal Ali and Adnan Siddiqui is solid. Akshaye Khanna proves yet again that he is a very fine actor, we'd like to see much more from him but Nawazuddin Siddiqui - as unbelievable as it is has surprised me yet again, he is so calm yet so loud, so low-key yet so sharp.

While working on the Oscar nominated film Full metal Jacket my favourite director of all time Stanley Kubrick told one of his lead stars 'Real is one thing, but interesting is better' and almost of Nawazuddin Siddiqui's performances remind me of that line. Every one of his characters is so real, so believable but adds his own little touch and makes every character interesting, the mark of a top grade actor.

Special mention for A R Rahman's music, the background score is like an additional principal character in the film, keeps you at the edge of your seat. Much to my disappointment though the climax sequence of the film is a BIG letdown, they did not in give to any cliches till the end but messed it up with the most predictable climax scene possible.

The makers risked some disturbing sequences including some very light dose of gore which you get in abundance in epic Japanese and South Korean films but the director was gritty enough to include such scenes and themes in an Indian film.

Powered by Sridevi Mom is just the kind of jolt we all need in frequent intervals I'm going with 3/5 for this revenge drama.

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Mom movie review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui steals Sridevi’s thunder in this revenge drama

What stops sridevi’s mom from getting closer to pink is its inability to get inside the criminals’ minds. nawazuddin siddiqui is in top form in mom. here’s our movie review..

Mom Cast: Sridevi, Nawazudin Siddiqui, Akshaye Khanna Director: Ravi Udyawar Rating: 3/5

The posters of Mom created a good buzz. Sridevi and Nawazuddin Siddiqui on one such poster.

A black car speeds its way through a deserted Delhi road on a pitch dark night. An aerial shot shows it halting at a lonely crossroad. Two doors open, and the driver swaps his seat with a person in the rear. The car starts moving again, and sometime before daybreak, its occupants throw a teenage girl into a roadside drain.

We haven’t been shown the inside of the car, but we all know what could have happened there. Hundreds of media reports scream of such crimes against women every year, but people simply pick up the pieces and move on with their lives. This movie is not about them. It is about a mother who decides to avenge the rape of her daughter because the law couldn’t get her the justice she deserves.

A likeable-yet-strict biology teacher Devaki (Sridevi) is your average parent who wants to keep tabs on the social life and friends of an adolescent Arya (Sajal Ali). She is Arya’s stepmother, and is probably why Arya doesn’t seem to trust her. The child’s rape threatens to further tear them apart, but Devaki is determined to not let that happen.

Now, all this may sound like the recently released Maatr, where Raveena Tandon played a mother who moves mountains to punish her daughter’s rapists. Though Mom is similar in tone, the previous film didn’t have actors like Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Akshaye Khanna and Adnan Siddiqui.

The supporting cast turns out to be a great asset for director Ravi Udyawar’s film, which brings out the mental trauma experienced by the rape victim just as much as it celebrates Sridevi’s valour.

Dayashankar Kapoor aka DK (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is the real charmer in Mom. He knows exactly when to switch gears and how to look timid despite being in the spotlight. The actor’s understanding of his reel-life character comes to the fore in an interrogation scene with crime branch cop Mathew Francis (Akshaye Khanna). DK is scared like any other law-fearing citizen, but he still summons the courage to retain his composure in the circumstances.

And, of course, there are his one-liners. When told that a certain piece of modern art costs Rs 50 lakh, he murmurs: “Isse toh achcha main paan thuk ke bana deta (I could have made a better painting by spitting betel juice on canvas).”

Akshaye Khanna has a good screen presence in Mom.

Overlook Akshaye Khanna’s twitched eyebrows for a few seconds and you’ll start appreciating his sarcastic tone. He remains underutilised, though, probably to give Sridevi more screen time. The movie seems to be headed in the right direction, complete with an excellent emotional outburst by Devaki inside a hospital in the first half, but the story soon begins to waver.

What stops Mom from becoming more like Pink is its inability to enter the minds of the criminals. Abhimanyu Singh is definitely menacing, but his accent is nowhere close to what his character should have. Other typically Bollywood liberties have also been taken to reduce the stature of the movie from a gut-wrenching film to a slightly above-average revenge drama.

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Verbal duals between Sridevi and Akshaye Khanna appear staged, as if subtlety was the last thing on the filmmaker’s mind. They fail to achieve what Nawazuddin Siddiqui does with a single glance. Just one look at his own daughter, and you know whose side he is on. No words are needed.

Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui leaves his mark in Mom.

To give credit where it’s due, Mom does fan the audience’s anger against people who indulge in anti-women crimes. However, it never intends to create a full-blown fire that would change the attitude of potential criminals in similar situations. Instead, Sridevi takes it upon herself to deliver justice – thereby undermining the authority of law and related machinery. This is where Pink excelled.

The good thing is, Mom does what it intends to: Become a film that can hold the audience’s attention for 148 minutes. There are no intricacies that unfold step by step (it’s mostly predictable, really), but Girish Kohli’s screenplay ensures an entertaining drama.

It’s been five years since we saw Sridevi nailing it in English Vinglish (2012). Though she has made a stunning comeback with Mom, I still believe it’s Nawazuddin Siddiqui who scores here.

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Mom Movie Review: We Need More Moms Like Devaki In India Where Rape Is Epidemic

We need more devakis to protect our daughters in a society which is not safe for women and a paradise for rapists..

Star Cast: Sridevi, Akshaye Khanna, Adnan Siddiqui, Sajal Ali, Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Director: Ravi Udyawar

What’s Good: Gripping story, direction, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui who is a delight to watch!

What’s Bad: While Sridevi’s acting is brilliant she needs to work on her accent. Also, the film could be shortened in the second half.

Loo Break: Interval will be good enough

Watch or Not?: A must watch

High school student Arya Sabrawal gets raped by her class mate Mohit and his aides one of who is a criminal. After the culprits are declared innocent by the court, Arya’s step mother Devaki, a school teacher decides to teach them a lesson in her own way but it’s not an easy task. A private investigator tries to help her but the police come in their way.

Will Devaki be able to avenge her daughter’s culprits?

Mom Movie Review: Script Analysis

Don’t mess with a daughter and if you do, be prepared to face her mother. Yes, you read that right, her mom. Sridevi as Devaki is not the helpless mother of Hindi movies of earlier times who would wail and sob and plead to the culprit “Bhagwan ke liye meri beti ko chhod do”. She is the 21st century Mom, who is loving and caring but not helpless. She is love and kindness personified in one moment but can turn into Maa Durga the very next to fight the demons of society and protect her children. This is the mom who doesn’t hesitate to punish her daughter’s rapists and stands as an inspiration in a country like ours where a girl is raped by some wolves openly in the public and others take the sheer pleasure of filming the video and sharing it on social media.

This aptly justifies the dialogue, “Since God cannot be everywhere, He created Mother”.

Ravi Udyawar, Girish Kohli and Kona Venkat Rao take a bow!

Mom Movie Review: Star Performance

Sridevi shows that she is one of the finest actors Bollywood has ever produced and can be proud of. The veteran actress carries the entire film on her shoulders and how! Nobody could have essayed Devaki better than her I feel. At times during the movie I felt, she is not playing Devaki, she IS Devaki. She is an inspiration for not only aspiring actors but also for B-Town’s younger generation of actors. To describe in one word, she is outstanding. However, a Delhi woman speaking Hindi with a south accent sounds a bit too odd. I’m sure the makers could have come up with a solution for this.

Has Nawazuddin Siddiqui ever failed to impress? I can’t think of any film where he has! The way he gets into the skin of the character is commendable! The supremely talented actor only gets better with every film I feel. In Bollywood, if anyone can compete with Nawazuddin, it’s Nawazuddin himself! What a performance!

Akshaye Khanna impresses as the tough crime branch cop. I wonder why he doesn’t work in more films.

Pakistani actors Adnan Siddiqui and Sajal Ali, both of who make their Bollywood debut with Mom, put up a nice performance as father and daughter. Adnan Siddiqui is especially brilliant as a grief-stricken father desperate to get justice for his daughter who is a piece of his heart.

While every actor has put in their best performance, Nawazuddin Siddiqui steals the show!

Mom Movie Review: Direction, Music

Debutant director Ravi Udyawar tells a powerful, hard-hitting story which is inspired by the reality of our society and stands as an inspiration for its women. Devaki’s question “Agar aapko galat aur bohot galat mein se chun na ho, toh aap kya chunenge?” is relevant for this society. I wish every woman who has been a victim of eve-teasing, molestation, rape, domestic violence or harassment could get justice in our country.

This is a film which every Indian woman will be able to relate with. The film connects with the viewer emotionally, which is where Ravi Udyawar scores as a director. This is a film, which will inspire women to not feel weak or helpless, to awaken the fiery Goddess inside them and fight against the wrong. Mom is a film relevant for the present time in a country where violence against women is rampant.

The film is gripping, although a few unwanted scenes in the second half where it tends to stretch could be chopped. The film particularly takes time to reach the climax.

There are a few scenes which give goosebumps and some which will make you shed tears. Sridevi’s hospital scene where she gets to know that her daughter has been raped is one of her finest performances and touches the heart.

A.R Rahman’s background music creates just the right impact for a story like this. I liked the track Chal Kahin Door and O Sona Tere Liye crooned by the composer himself.

Mom Movie Review: The Last Word

We need more moms like Devaki to protect our daughters in a society which is NOT safe for women and a paradise for rapists. Three and half stars for this one!

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“MOM” the movie was a classic example of old wine in a new bottle,which in this case was a “bottle” of mediocre quality.

The movie was completely predictable from start to finish with no surprises whatsoever.

Everyone’s acting (except Sridevi) was extremely ordinary,including Nawazudin and Akshay as the roles of these two were too small to have any meaningful impact.

This is the first time that I have seen Sridevi looking so very old and tired.I guess this is a clear sign of age finally catching up with her.

Her performance was competent,but not brilliant because of the very plain script which had nothing new to offer.

All in all don’t go expecting another wonderful Sridevi movie a la “English Vinglish “as this movie is far far far from it.

However it is a million times better than that dud of a movie called “NO LIGHT”, I mean “Tubelight”

MOM one of the best movie of Sridevi Kapoor .Sridevi shows that she is one of the finest actors Bollywood has ever produced.

Whenever Jaya Bacchan or Sridevi do these kinds of role, the media goes crazy with loads of praises even though anyone could have done it brilliantly. Sridevi’s intensive facelift because of plastic surgery is just scary. Unfortunately, the Best Supporting Actress awards is ready for her already.

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MOM movie review: The plot is riddled with holes, and is too focussed on Sridevi

Mom movie review: there are other good actors in the film, apart from nawazuddin siddiqui and abhimanyu singh. sajal ali, who plays the young victim, is particularly effective. adnan siddiqui, as sridevi’s husband, is very dishy, but suffers from the same problem the rest of the cast : not enough heft..

MOM movie cast: Sridevi, Nawazudin Siddiqui, Akshaye Khanna, Adnan Siddiqui, Sajal Ali, Abhimanyu Singh MOM movie director: Ravi Udyawar MOM movie rating: 2 stars

Mom begins with promise. Vivacious teenager Arya goes with her friends to a swinging party, and instead of working off an illicit hangover the next morning, and conducting giggly post-mortems with her school pals, finds herself in a dark, dark place.

First time feature filmmaker, adman Ravi Udyawar sets it up deftly, sketching Arya’s (Ali) rocky relationship with stepmother Devki ( Sridevi ), an overly compensating one with her father (Adnan Siddiqui) and younger sister. There are some chilling sequences that we watch with our heart in our mouth: a black car circling the deserted streets of Delhi like a shark ; a bunch of entitled testosterone-filled jerks casing the joint in search of easy female prey; and how a party meant for fun and games can swiftly descend into terrifying chaos. You recall those names—Jessica Lal, Jyoti Singh — and so many other young women who don’t hit the headlines but make up the sickening assault count in the Capital. And you shake yourself and wait for the track of righteous comeuppance to kick in.

We know how the rest of it will pan out, given the countless rape-and-revenge thrillers churned out every so often: just a couple of months back, Raveena Tandon was walking the same path in Matr. The only way you can break through the clutter is via a plot boasting novelty and distinctive performances : unfortunately, Mom’s plot is riddled with holes, and is far too focused on Sridevi.

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When you start creating scenes to topline the actor not plot, such as it is, you do disservice to both. Mom is so busy keeping Sridevi centre-stage that it makes this film much less impactful than it could have been. It isn’t as if Sridevi, who returns after a sizeable gap after English Vinglish, can’t carry a film on her own. Shorn of her mannerisms, and pancake, Sri needs only a twitch or a glance to prove that she is a powerhouse, and there are several scenes she lifts by just being there.

But the film overdoes it, and what could have been a taut thriller is reduced to being a showcase for Sridevi’s capabilities, which we are fully aware of already. It also leaves even someone as capable as Nawazuddin struggling to overcome a spectacularly ugly hair-piece and a sketchily written part. He plays Detective DK, who is to be seen playing a wholly inexplicable game of hide-and-seek with Devki, which just serves to stretch the film needlessly.

The film side-steps this crucial question in its quest to do quirk. As the four perpetrators (including a very vivid Abhimanyu Singh) seem to be getting off scot-free, Devki gets going, and from then on, the improbabilities pile up. Just how is a school biology teacher, for that is what Devki is, meant to know anything about breaking-and-entering, and other things involving larceny? The plot is distressingly vague about these details, and we are left muttering, just like poor Akshaye Khanna who shows up as a crime branch cop reaching the point post-facto.

There are other good actors here, apart from Nawaz and Abhimanyu. Sajal Ali, who plays the young victim, is particularly effective. Adnan Siddiqui, as Sridevi’s husband, is very dishy, but suffers from the same problem the rest of the cast : not enough heft. The heavy-lifting is left to Sridevi, and she goes all out. But she is made to do too much: too much widening of the eyes, too much narrowing of the mouth, and too many things we don’t really believe she can do. You want to see what she can really do, give her a solid plot, and see her make a meal of it. Mom is not that film.

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Mom movie review: Goddess Sridevi is lost to Bollywood’s eternal clichés on sexual assault

Debutant director Ravi Udyawar’s Mom revolves around a mother whose teenaged daughter is sexually assaulted in the most gruesome fashion imaginable.

How could you get the politics of your film almost perfect in the first half, then descend into eternal Bollywood clichés about rape and maaaaaaa in the second? How could you go from low-key to high-pitched within the span of a single narrative? How could you assemble some of the most talented screen performers ever seen together in a film, then limit many of them with one-dimensional characterisation?

(SPOILERS AHEAD)

Sridevi plays the central character, Devki Sabarwal. She is not your typical old-time-Bollywood Nirupa Roy kind of perennially weeping madre who was restricted to keeping house, longing for a bahu and shouting at God for being a patthar ki murti unmoved by her adoring son’s hardships. Devki is a senior school biology teacher, and is struggling to gain the affections of her husband’s first child Arya. Her mild demeanour camouflages a tough-as-nails personality though. That hidden Durga goes on a rampage – quiet at first – when Arya’s torn and ravaged body is found one day in a ditch, and the girl is let down by the judiciary.

You probably know this much already if you have been following the film’s publicity and have read its Wikipedia page. What you do not know yet is that the pre-interval portion of Mom goes beyond the expected, the initial treatment of the mother-daughter relationship is unconventional, and the long-drawn out scene of gangrape is chilling yet sensitively done – what unfolds before our eyes is designed to horrify, yet we are not shown a single shot of what actually happens to Arya, which is a relief considering how Bollywood of an earlier era often used rape to titillate audiences rather than evoke empathy for the abused.

In the opening half of Mom , I found myself sobbing uncontrollably and moved to the point of speechlessness. I remember quickly pretending to check my phone during the interval for fear that a colleague at the press preview might strike up a conversation with me and realise I had lost my voice.

Understatement is the hallmark of Mom up to this point, and the gender politics is just so. But for a passing comment by Devki, which is atypical of this seemingly liberal woman, the writing does not stereotype women or sexual violence until then. (Credits: story by Ravi Udyawar, Girish Kohli and Kona Venkat, screenplay and dialogue by Girish Kohli.)

Perhaps that comment should have given us a hint of what was to come though. When Devki goes to a police station to report a missing daughter, cops brush aside her fear, with one going to the extent of saying that the girl has most likely taken off with her boyfriend since it is Valentine’s night. You may have come across many such girls but my daughter is not that type, Devki retorts. That type? Really?

If those words had come from a character who had already been established as a conservative by the screenplay, it would have made sense, but since Devki is portrayed as an open-minded person, this sounded more like the writers unwittingly betraying their inner conservatism.

Still, that remark was overshadowed by the poignance of the film up to that moment.

Sadly, the post-interval portion of Mom leaves behind normal human beings with normal reactions to crimes against themselves and their loved ones, and gives way to cinematic clichés. Devki becomes an avenging angel in the mould of Dimple Kapadia in 1988’s Zakhmi Aurat , and Mom begins its downhill slide.

This is why last year’s Pink was so unusual — because for the most part, it showed us how ordinary people react to sexual violence in particular and injustices in general, despite the frustrations of inhabiting an unjust world.

Revenge sprees are less challenging to write though than nuanced normality. They also serve to satisfy the bloodlust of the audience, which is why commercial cinema has opted for them so often down the decades. If it was not a zakhmi aurat (wounded woman) it was a brother out to avenge the loss of his ghar ki izzat (family honour). In A Wednesday (2008), director Neeraj Pandey extended this populism to mob justice in terror cases, with a Common Man taking the law into his own hands to punish aatankvaadis who he feels are being needlessly given fair trials in the Indian system. In Mom the argument is articulated thus: “ Galat aur bahut galat mein se chun-na ho toh aap kya chunenge ?” (If you have to choose between what is wrong and what is very wrong, what would you choose?)

To be fair to Bollywood, it is not the only Indian film industry guilty of this charge. The Malayalam film industry a.k.a. Mollywood, for instance, has in recent years given us Puthiya Niyamam (2016) and 22 Female Kottayam (2012), which too were crowd-pleasing portrayals of rape.

Even for those who do not care about realism and reality, Mom is problematic for its lazy writing in the second half where loose ends are left hanging so openly that an intelligent person might spot them from a mile away. A criminal leaves behind a mega clue at a crime scene, but casually outwits a supposedly smart cop who gets his hands on it and who, at that point, is not sympathetic to her cause, which means he cannot be assumed to have deliberately let it go. Two people who show considerable deftness in committing three crimes, suddenly become really stupid with their fourth potential victim. And those same accomplices vow to hide their association from the world, yet subsequently provide elephant-sized evidence of it to the police.

So yes, Sridevi’s acting is wonderful; the actors playing her supportive husband Anand (Adnan Siddiqui) and Arya (Sajal Ali) have immensely likeable personalities; the use of AR Rahman’s music in the first half is effective; the always amazing Anay Goswami’s cinematography summons up stunning grandeur and intimacy by turns, depending on the requirement of the situation; and a particular mention must be made of the brilliant sound design by Nihar Ranjan Samal during the assault on Arya; but none of that can compensate for the post-interval increase in the film’s volume, the limited use of a talented actor like Akshaye Khanna (as the policeman Mathew Francis), the over-use of Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s histrionics for the character of the detective Dayashankar Kapoor aka DK, the re-stressing of gender stereotypes through a transgender character in the film, the loopholes and, above all, the cliched portrayal of the response to sexual assault.

As if all this is not bad enough, Mom ’s handling of the judicial process too lacks clarity and is misleading to viewers who do not know the nitty-gritty of India’s laws governing rape. I hope a lawyer will review this film in the coming days.

Ultimately then, despite its pretensions to non-conformism, Mom does nothing more than aim at easy applause. That goal is best illustrated by its predictable, horribly maudlin ending about maaaaaaaaaa .

Perhaps it was foolish to expect anything better from a film in which one character says, “ Bhagwan har jagah nahin hota , DKji (God is not everywhere),” to which DKji aka Dayashankar Kapoor replies, “ Isiliye toh usne maa banaayi hai (yes, that is why he made mothers).” If you want to be Manmohan Desai or Yash Chopra, why not go all out and not pretend?

The emotional pull of the first half and Sridevi’s acting excellence notwithstanding, Mom in many ways is as dangerous as the loud, raucous, not-even-pretending-to-be-progressive-about-women commercial Bollywood of the 1970s and ’80s.

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Critics Review

Mom packs a solid punch to the women security issue in the country.

The debutant director Ravi Udyawar does not let this tale become just a preachy revengeful saga but his approach of depicting the emotional journey and building moments is commendable. The characters are well laid out but the weak point of the film was its editing and the second seems far too stretched. The music by A.R. Rahman is top notch with O SonaTereLiye standing out for me. (more)

Source: Divay Agarwal, MovieCrow

We Need More Moms Like Devaki In India Where Rape Is Epidemic

Sridevi shows that she is one of the finest actors Bollywood has ever produced and can be proud of. The veteran actress carries the entire film on her shoulders and how! Nobody could have essayed Devaki better than her I feel. At times during the movie I felt, she is not playing Devaki, she IS Devaki. She is an inspiration for not only aspiring actors but also for B-Town�s younger generation of actors. To describe in one word, she is outstanding. However, a Delhi woman speaking Hindi with a south accent sounds a bit too odd. I�m sure the makers could have come up with a solution for this. (more)

Source: Ahana Bhattacharya, Koimoi

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Mom reminds you for the umpteenth time that we're in Nirbhaya country. Like other films on the same subject, debutant Ravi Udyawar's emotional thriller tells you that India, or should that be New Delhi specifically, isn't safe enough for women, especially young girls. And its relevance makes it an important watch. (more)

Source: Meena Iyer, Times Of India

Sridevi tries hard to carry the film, but a weak plot fails her

First time feature filmmaker adman Ravi Udyawar sets it up deftly, sketching Arya�s ( Ali) rocky relationship with stepmother Devki ( Sridevi), an overly compensating one with her father ( Adnan Siddiqui) and younger sister. (more)

Source: Shubhra Gupta , Indian Express

Sridevi's stellar performance saves this stale story

Director Ravi Udyawar's debut film, �Mom�, is an eye-opener of sorts in today�s misogynistic society where preconceived notions about how women should carry themselves still exist. Starring Sridevi, this film primarily revolves around the menacing issue of gang rape, set rightly in the heart of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, Indian states that is most notorious for abuse against women. (more)

Source: ROHIT BHATNAGAR, Deccan Chronicle

More power to Sridevi!

Except things go awry after two of the most contentious traditions of youth culture -- a farmhouse party and Valentine's Day -- combine to become the trigger point for a crime synonymous with Delhi today. Without sharing a single detail of the ensuing brutality, Udyawar conveys the horror of rape by leaving the viewer to imagine the worst as the camera tracks a top-down perspective of a zooming vehicle against A R Rahman's chilling background score. (more)

Source: Sukanya Verma, Rediff.com

Sridevi, Magnificently Expressive, Is A Treat To Watch

OM has other assets, too, not the least of which is the outstanding quality of the performances that first-time director Ravi Udyawar extracts from his cast. Add to that cinematographer Anay Goswamy's adroit lensing and lighting, and you have a film that is consistently compelling. The visual compositions, an evocative interplay of light and shadows, create the palpable crevices of darkness where evil is afoot and resolute acts of defiance are plotted and executed. If there is any major grouse one has with MOM, it is with the editing. It's overly indulgent. The result: the film is 15 minutes too long. (more)

Source: saibal chatterjee, NDTV Movies

Sridevi's heroic performance makes it a must watch!

The director captures the awkward relationship between the mother and daughter beautifully. The portions between Devki and DK also have their endearing moments. A revenge film is a revenge film, after all. There's a lot Udyawar has borrowed from films like Eye For An Eye (Sally Field). It's the treatment that sets the film apart. The director indulges in showing less for more impact. So a lot of the drama is subtle and therefore more effective. MOM is interestingly cast and that's a major part of the battle won. (more)

Source: SARITA A TANWAR, DNA

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Mom is an important film. Though its theme is nothing new the debutant director ensures a vigorous accountability to almost every scene. You may be tempted to wonder why Mom seems..

There’s a lot packed in here. To begin with, the film dwells on the dynamics of a teenager’s standoffish relationship with her stepmom. This entire track is beautifull..

MOM is an important film for three reasons. 1) – Its testimony that Sridevi is one of the most accomplished actresses alive, 2) Ravi Udyawar is a filmmaker to look out for ..

‘Mom’ is like a tale of fiery tigress, who can do anything in order to protect her cub. It’s a taut thriller which deserved to be seen.

It is one of the best films of 2017. Go watch it for a gripping, and emotionally moving story and some brilliant performances.

Not always an easy watch – it isn’t meant to be – MOM wields a heavy mallet, but it does so with purpose, precision and panache.

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Release date: 07 July, 2017

Zee Studios, BSK Network & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., MAD Films and Naresh Agarwal Films’ Mom is an emotional family drama. The film is about a school teacher Devki Sabarwal (Sridevi) , whose life revolves around her husband Anand (Adnan Siddiqui) and step-daughter Arya (Sajal Ali), even though Arya hates her for being a ... step mother.

One day, when Arya attends a party with her friends, she resists emotional advancements from a gang of four boys, who land up raping her and leaving her in a gutter.

Seeing law taking its own sweet time to deliver justice for her daughter, Devki seeks help from a small time detective Dayashankar Kapoor (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and decides to teach the four boys a lesson which they will never forget.

Does Devki become successful in her mission to teach a lesson to the four boys, does justice get delivered in the favour of Arya is what forms the rest of the film.

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