Gandhari Review: Blindness which Dhritarashtra would approve.
Kanika Dhillon has long been one of my favorite writers in the Hindi film industry, which makes her post- Do Patti trajectory all the more heartbreaking—she seems to be steadily losing her touch. Directed by Devashish Makhija, this Netflix original features an impressive cast including Taapsee Pannu, Ishwak Singh, Mita Vashisht, Jatin Sarna, and Swastika Mukherjee. Billed as a revenge thriller, the film ends up using a rich tribal festival purely as a convenient backdrop rather than a meaningful narrative anchor. Clocking in at 114 minutes, this Netflix original tries hard to keep you hooked, but laying all its cards on the table within the first half-hour leaves it with nowhere compelling to go. Rather than making the subsequent journey worthwhile, Gandhari resorts to convenient, hollow plot twists that land with a thud. What keeps the film afloat are its performances—most notably earnest turns from Ishwak Singh and Mita Vashisht. But by clumsily forcing the Chaumukhi festival into...
