Sherdil

To be honest, I gave this a watch only for Pankaj Tripathi, one of my favourite actors. With an equally-strong Neeraj Kabi alongside him, you are sure to be given some awesome performances.

This movie talks about many issues prevalent in the society, with the main message being the true events that occurred in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. As I said before, the performances by our leads and supporting characters were phenomenal. Also, Sayani Gupta I felt nailed her role as well. The writing could have been more crisp and less "preachy" I would say. They could have used subtle symbolisms to convey messages instead of almost preaching about it. Nevertheless this was just a personal gripe and can be ignored, because the messages conveyed are truly important to understand. Otherwise, the subtle doses of humour every now and then were pretty funny. The cinematography was absolutely gorgeous. The non-linear way in which the story is told makes it bit more engaging. The direction by Srijit Mukherjee was quite good. The score and songs was super good, with Saint Kabir's poems forming the inspiration of the lyrics.

This movie might disengage you if you are not connecting with the characters, but it did not happen for me. But I do feel the first half could have been more crisp. The second half was good pacing-wise.

Please do watch this movie to understand the other poorer side of India. A 7/10 from my side!

Must watch movie. Very light hearted and so natural acting by Pankaj. Sayani supported him well too. Loved dialogues, direction. A bit slow in between but overall very good movie.

This movie could have been made awesome if not for the mediocre to poor direction and writing.

The topic/subject is excellent and very interesting - the reason I watched the movie in the first place.

The actors are good, but when the direction and writing is not good, they can't do much and their true skills and potential is far from realized.

The dialogues at times, are clearly very poorly written.

And it's no wonder - if you look at the Filmography of the Director, he has directed several films till now. If he was really a good one, we would have heard/known atleast one of this previous films.

Bad choices ruined an excellent subject.

This Movie is not only a movie, but it is the fact of habitats at the forest borders. Very Naturally performed by Pankaj Tripathi. Actually he was the only actor who could have acted such real reels. I request all the Juries to without hesitation this movie, its crew, director,actors and especially Pankaj Tripathi should be awarded as they deserve it.

Not so interesting, very boring only sometimes Pankaj Tripathi tickle you with his unique dialogues.. That's it. 5 for Pankaj and 0 for all casting. 80% of movie just surrounding camera angle..