Angry Indian Goddesses (2015)

Good film despite all the clichés. Really this is a film of two halves. The first two thirds is a female bonding melodrama. This part seems scripted. All the story threads collapse into a high on emotion last third. Somehow it all works. My favorite scene remains the pre credit introduction of all the characters. It promises a great movie. A few other throw away scenes also suggest the ability of the director. Better writing might have helped.Still watchable.7/10

The film is about the problems that women (especially Indian women) face on a day to day basis, just because they are women. Throughout the film we see their issues weaved into the narrative, and it all climaxes to the sobering message at the end:"Society, don't wait till we're raped and murdered for you to stand up for us or with us. We are a part of you, society, we are mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, wives, lovers, family, colleagues, and friends. You worship Devis, the goddesses, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Durga, but you don't stop and think that maybe the women we see every day deserve some of our respect too."

The story is an average one of a all girl bachelor party, that being the set up and the focus on issues that are related to Indian women. Nothing out of the box issues or the way it is handled. The ending had to have some drama, and it has, again nothing out of the box. The editing could have been crispier, will give a 6 out of 10 there.Those were the flaws, now comes the good part.Genuinely superb acting from 3 of the 7 leads, I know 2-3 of them and not by name or at least I didn't. I do not know whether to credit the director or the actors, but it was a superb performance from the actors.Hilarious at times, crude at time, raunchy at times but you will enjoy it. That the director took the initiative of making these girls as crude as 'Masti', was enough for me to watch the movie. I do not see too many Hindi movies, but I never expected words like D*#do, Or#$@sm and stuff like that ad the way the scenes were handled were brilliant. The characters were genuinely alive, you see them everyday. You feel like you know them, the problems they face in everyday life is very common to me and you and girls lusting over shirtless guys and things like that captured the free spirited modern Indian lady so well.The script could have been tighter, but still it was very very good. The director really took the best from the actors, especially (let me check the name) Pavleen Gujral, brilliant as the ex-gold-medalist-now-housewife r,ole showing her hesitations as a typical Indian woman and Sarah Dias's superb restraint acting towards the end of the movie. Sandhya Mridul was a little over the top, still good, Anushka was good at times, never bad and the rest were also good, if not great. Watch the movie just because of the acting, timing and mainly the way the director has beautifully set up the screenplay. I fast forwarded the Salman starrer super predictable Sultan in 1.15 hours, couldn't complete the hamming of the legendary AB in Te3n and Piku, but I was able to watch this movie in one go. If you are getting my drift, you will enjoy the movie. It is a must watch for every urban man and woman of the age group of 20 to 50. Forget the theme, just enjoy the movie and make sure your kids are not nearby.Hats off to the new generation of Indian women and to the director

This movie is one of the very in Bollywood which really talks about the issues faced by the Indians due to the society and the judicial system and what not. Though I am not very supportive to the ending of killing the criminals and I know it would have taken a lot many days for the court to sentence the criminals but taking the law in hand or killing someone just doesn't feel right to me. The Policeman rightfully depicts the actual policemen. They are supposed to help the people not to make their life miserable. I so support the way police in south Indian states works like in Chennai. Also, saying that "decent educated girls shouldn't wear these type of clothes" is just plainly wrong. Any one can wear anything they please and no matter what you wear the people who want to judge will exactly what the maid Laxmi pointed out.