Not to forget
that the Naxalite movement was seeded due to the mass injustice with the poor. The
country is facing this reaction for several years though the activist like Dr.
Binayak Sen, Arundhati Roy, Sachin Mali, Shital Sathe, Arun Ferreira and many
others fought for the equal rights and also got arrested in charges of being
connected with the naxalites and involved in naxalites movement. All these
activists worked with tribal communities of Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra
and other states and tried to keep them away from the bloodsucking so called
movement of naxalism. But the political forces are making the opposite reaction
to this equaling action for several years. Not the democratic way of election
also could make out a good living for this alienated people. Naxalites are the
victims of this corrupt system but they don’t realize that keeping the whole
community unenlightened without education and prosperity, they are being puppet
in the hands of the upper forces. The system can be changed by the tools of
election but the evil of Naxalism prevents it to be done as no officer want to
attain the loyal duty in the fear of naxalite attacks. An honest government
officers like Newton Kumar believes that every duty has its own dignity and he
prepares himself for the election duty and gradually he wants those victimized people
to rebel and turn the system upside down with the democratic way of fare election.
He tries it hard not for the sake of his duty but for the well beginning of the
awareness at least.
The on duty
Election booth’s Presiding officer Newton Kumar soon realizes that getting the
election procedure accomplished in the area surrounded by jungle and the burnt
houses, the sign of boycott by naxalites, is not as easy and heroic as he
imagined. The CRPF officer Atma Singh (Pankaj Tripathi) warns him about naxalite
attacks but Newton does not listen to him. Atma Singh also warns him to remain
Newton and not to be Einstein. Newton
believes that if the tribals are guided properly then they will not fear for
the attack by naxalites. Newton encourages them to vote and even provide a
crash course for how to vote. The course also brings forward that the
candidates of election are absolutely unknown to their actual voters. During
the course the tribals asks very basic questions which are unanswered since several
years in free India. The honest office Newton faces the questions like what will
they gain from an election, who will give them a good price for tendu patta? If
they vote then they will have to face consequences both by police and
Naxalites. No one asks them what they really want. They want to get rid of both
of them. Newton obviously doesn’t have any particular answer for this. Somehow
he gets 39 people out of 76 voted.
Atma Singh
is an experienced police officer and he knows when the naxalite could attack so
he mocks the attack and making an havoc get the election booth emptied, he
sends back Newton and all other officers. But Malko asks Newton to use his
sixth sense. And Newton completes his
duty as per Rule. This portion of the movie is been quite dramatic, but who
knows, that could be the reality of this so called fare election. But the drama
also can damage the road to final selection for Oscars.
Director Amit
Masurkar has all the hold on the Newton’s law throughout the movie. His and
Mayank Tewari’s screenplay framed the serious topic into a satire and black
comedy. Putting a serious topic in a black comedy is being the long practice of
film makers in India. It is definitely a showcase of life of end people for the
70 years of independence. The question is, did the system has shaken a bit?
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