Law

A decent one time watchable movie. But it has pale writing. And cinematography is average and acting doesn't reached up to expectations and narration could be better. Overall an average and one time watchable movie.

Slow narration, clumsy screenplay and lack of seriousness in characters played puts the movie LAW into an average category.Ragini, who played lead character in this movie should have done her acting prep properly.Second half is just a deliberate watch after you're revealed with main twist at the interval. Overall, it's a below average movie if you're a thriller genre freak.

Law is Kannada-language thriller (subtitled) that opens with a stereotypical take on incompetent, almost Keystone Cops-like misogynist authorities' reaction to a young girl, Nandini (Ragini Prajwal), claiming to have been gangraped. She, however, is a law student, so the proceedings get complicated and hardly as ludicrous as the opening depicts.

As the investigation unfolds, it's almost as if the infamous Indian paternalism, represented by the ignorant cops and a father denying his daughter help, has faded away, and the title is the real subject: Did the three young men really rape her or is her perseverance about revenge more than her pursuit of justice?

After the absurd opening and then the impressive proof Nandini, representing herself, presents against the three, the film settles into the shades of grey inherent in any court drama, with motives as moving as observable evidence. Director Ragu Samarth has a sure eye for cutting between the suspects and sufferers even if his cuts are too quick and flashbacks unhelpful because of the speed editing and his desire not to reveal the outcome too soon.

Along the way, the trial becomes the most fascinating part of the film with counterclaims and plot twists keeping the audience attentive and emotionally torn. Although there is a bit of Bollywood music and song and a share of absurdity, the heart of the action is truth and its service to justice.

Besides the sometimes-grating music and the rapid speech patterns of Southwest India, Law, like the series Law and Order, has much more than evidence and truth-it is exposing the weaknesses and depravity of humanity, together with a hope that honor will out. Not always, but those weaknesses make for frequently fascinating storytelling.

Law is part of the streaming Amazon Prime package.

Story is good, but director have add more intresting story to it. Ragini Prajwal's acting is very poor. but its first time so its ok.

The movie had potential. And it's a good one-time watch. Better than the masala Bollywood movies anyday.

Like I said, it had potential. The suspense is not very opaque. If you are a fan of thriller and suspense you can easily detect the camouflage in the first few scenes. I knew that there was more to Nandini's claims than what was shown which made the twist in the interval, not such a grand reveal because I had pretty much guessed it.

What they could have done was, like Andhadhun, expose the mystery in a cavalier manner, as though it wouldn't make a difference if the audience guessed the plot or not. From here they could have taken the second half in a much better place than it eventually ended.

I like the fact that they did justice to the title. The court scenes have an authentic quality to it, unlike regular movie court scenes.

They could have the ending better. It felt a bit anticlimactic and unbelievable that the mastermind Nandini would resort to killing in the courtroom.

A good outing by PRK productions and Raghu Samarth. Ragini Prajwal holds her own for her debut. The veteran Kannada actors give the movie it's direction.