UDTA PUNJAB (review)

A good film, yes..but a product which is either filled with too much ludicrous audacity (thanks to Tommy, not the Kutta, ''abbe be****hod wo fuddu wala!'') or being consistently grim & deeply disturbing ! To watch a girl being drugged into sexual capitulation, while her captors assure the policeman/rapist that “she is well trained” & hence will not attack him, to see the extremes to which drug-addled teenage brains falls in their desperation for a fix is chilling yet heart rending beyond description.
If not for the laudable performances by Alia Bhatt & Diljit Dosanjh, trust me, this film would have completely fallen flat, that too with a thud! It's not a bad film & for once the director deserves some credit because it's a well-researched, keenly observed, no-holds-barred account of the extent to which cities (let's not point out only one!) are mired in drugs & drug-related corruption. Shahid's Tommy is very ill written role specially in the first half where all he does is scream to the top of his voice & all you get to hear from him is cock, balls, nuts, holes & fuckers of all kinds. Tommy does get a new lease of life post his pee-ing on his fans incident when he is chased by an enraged crowd & he lands up at a deserted place with Kumari Pinky played remarkably by Alia Bhatt, watch her change her body language completely sinking into the character. The conversations that follows between the two is probably one of the best written scenes in the film while the other being the scene where an injured & delirious Diljit (stabbed on his neck with a drugged needle) is brought home by Kareena, the former's cuteness in the entire conversation on the way will steal your heart. And then suddenly killing a major character leaves you stunned & glum!
Alas i quite didn't enjoy the film. I'd be more than happy if the lead players get numerous awards for their acts, but i don't think i'd dare watch this film again.