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I can even say this is the only movie that I have seen till date which is so authentic in its execution. The story revolves around a young boy(Jabya)who is a victim of the social inequality due to casteism in a village. The entire film drives in a direction where the group of people in the village infuriate the boy by abusing him and his family with his caste calling them "Fandri" (Pig), but he remains calm as his family is dependent on the village. The accumulation of all this anger, fear, fury get outburst in the climax act.

Everyone in the cast has done a extraordinary performance, there is nowhere where you can see any cinematic sequence. This credit should go the director of the movie (Nagraj Manjule). The amount of ground work that is there in this movie is enormous. Every single detail on the character, or the locations and sequence is something really unbelievable. One thing that can be quoted for instance is the place where Jabya's sister asks water in one of the homes when she runs and gasps. The anonymous character from the home doesn't hands over the water to her instead keeps it down to avoid the touch of inferior caste.

In the era of highly moving camera and fast action cuts, the camera work in the movie just shows the power of still cinematography which elevated the movie to the much higher level.

The movie is just one great masterpiece from the debut director !

When Fandry was released in 2013, it was critically acclaimed. I did not get chance to watch it then.

I saw Sairat, and later when Dhadak was released - I revisited Sairat and while reading about the Director Nagraj Manjule - came again across his first feature length film - Fandry.

The story is about 13 year old adolescents boy Jabya's dream - his unrequited LOVE towards Shalu, a girl studying with him. And Jabya's dis-interest in his untouchable lower caste's based role his father Kachru plays in the village doing menial jobs. The story eloquently leads us to the final set-up where embarrassed Jabya has to give a hand to his father to catch a piglet in front of his school mates inside a garbage ground.

It is an utterly heart-wrenching tale of realization of broken dreams of LOVE in front of whole village, especially in front of the girl who too laughs are the family's endeavors of catching a pig; where people humiliate and playfully laugh and make fun of Jabya.

After watching Fandry I also watched a short film of the director Nagraj - Pistulya (10 minutes short film)

Few things stand out as Director Nagraj Manjule's trademarks -

• His movies portrays his personal experiences of life,
• There is an angle of LOVE,
• The movies are based in smaller towns and villages,
• the protagonists are mostly new and unknown faces who are drawn into acting,
• There is social issues highlighted in the movie - castes, discrimination, honor killing, education
• The movies are a good mix of lighter moments,
• The music of the movies is good,
• The movies are made with much sensitiveness,
• One can see the glimpses of great master at work,
• It looks evident that a lot of work has been done at the script (writing) stage,
• There are moments in the movie that are heart wrenching,
• The endings of all the three movies are tragic

All the lead characters of the movie have enacted their roles beautifully. Applause to Somanth Awghade who plays Jabya and Kishore Kadam who plays Jabya's father Kachru.

The movie has won several awards including the National Award for best debut director and child artist.

The movie's cinematography is worth mentioning which has been captured with great still shots reminding us of internationally acclaimed directors like Terrence Mallick with sensibilities of Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali. The use of symbolism in beautifully interwoven with the flow of the script.

Director Manjule too has also done a small cameo as a mentor of Jabya. I will recommend this movie whole-heartedly. It was a stepping stone for Manjule to come out with the commercial block-buster Sairat - without compromising on the theme and his movie making style.

Great watch - Go, find FANDRY from somewhere - it is on Netflix too and watch it. The movie will change the way you look at life.

(I will go with 7.75 out of 10)

Cast issue is very less adressed. Not much shown but it's all there if u want to see u can see otherwise u can't see the cast in the society. Cast is the main issue in Indian society and nobody talks about it because it is a part of normal life of Indian people.

And I think the last stone which the boy throws is to us, 'the society'

Wow great movie I saw this in ilInternational Film Festival of Kerala. I personally got a chance to congratulate the director. Such a great movie. Shows how dalits are being treated in society. The man's invention of so called caste, making people uneducated. Its a clear cut of how people are being treated in India due to man's so called invention of caste.

A movie which shows the reality of the India which we all consider to be very modern and many people may think that these things don't exist in our modern society but be ready to get all your conceptions of the modern India be shattered by the movie Fandry.

The movie is very simple from the core yet a very complicated subject to fully understand.The movie portrays the harsh reality of our shallow society yet it doesn't loose the 'entertainment factor'.There are some funny scenes shown in the film from time to time without making the film too 'cheesy' unlike many recent bollywood movies,a clever move by the director Mr.Nagraj according to me.The acting is something which only great actors would have able to pull of,but most of the actors are new to the industry and act very well despite no previous experience in acting.

This movie is a true gem and should not be missed by anyone.