Firebrand

I can only guess certain things, so let's start with simple things. This has a certain serious agenda at heart. One that is more than well meaning, one that actually matters. It is about women, their status (not just in relationships), but in society in India. But while that all is good and nice, it is also filled with quite some cliches. And here is the guessing: Since it has such a powerful woman front and center, it may have led to the makers to have to sacrifice on other fronts.

Another woman who is the second female lead is very ... well describing her performance/character over the top would be an understatement. Having said that, the ending may be controversial but I personally liked it. It dared something ... even if it felt weird. It felt empowering to a degree - though as I said I can understand if some feel it is the complete opposite. Good intentions but quite flawed overall in many respects

When the production house that gave out a brilliant film like Ventilator, one is expected to to wait for another stellar piece of work. Firebrand is a horrible, cinematically disastrous and storywise a hollow film. Monotonous court proceedings with antimen agenda and with undertones of a traumatic past experience this movie hardly touches any topic. The psychiatry session is laughworthy and amateur as hell. Sex scenes are cringe. Expected better from Netflix.

For a movie dedicated to rape survivors, Priyanka Chopra has produced a movie that not only oversimplifies the aftermath but also completely jumps logic at its end. Rape doesn't just result in a conscious choice to focus on the past vs present. One can't simply "let it go." What's odd is the main actress acknowledges nightmares, invasive memories, traumatized sex with her husband, emotional tension being held in her neck and back, and she suffers with these for years and years. Even after seeing a therapist she struggles with the exercises and sporadic crying. Her choice to let it go or not is not all that is at play.

Trauma from rape results in very real, very physical changes to the brain and how the body's set points work-forever. Well after anyone decides to focus on the present, she'll be plagued with invasive thoughts and nightmares. Well after the choice, sex will still suffer from an occasional invasive memory. This actress definitely didn't commit adultery and suddenly cure herself. She's not "good to go" once she changes her perspective.

As someone fighting for women's rights and struggles, Priyanka Chopra's production company owes it to those women to at the very least accurately represent what they suffer through and what the road to recovery looks like. For real rape survivors out there who "let it go," live in the present, and yet continue to be plagued please know there are smarter women in this world supporting you with realistic expectations for your recovery and life going forward.

As for the rest of the movie, some interesting topics came up, but the characters were never developed enough for them to make a difference. There were at least eight themes or heavy topics, and not a single one was developed or explored to satisfaction.

Only attraction is national award winner girish kulkarni who perfectly fts in any role given to him effortlessly but supporting cast is in experienced and director also simply don't watch and waste your time

I liked the movie. It is very different and questions a lot of societal norms for men and women equally. The characters have humane quality and the movie is packed with good messages that so many movies lack.