Love Sonia
Synopsis:
And then boom, let us actually back up because Love Sonia isn't just another standard entry in the vast ocean of mainstream Bollywood movies, oh no, it is a devastatingly dark drama that hits you right in the chest from minute one.
Mrunal Thakur plays Sonia, an innocent young village girl whose deadbeat dad literally sells her older sister to pay off a massive debt, and because her family is drowning in poverty, Sonia's father tries to sell her too, but she refuses and somehow ends up sneaking away on a truck just to track down her sister, which leads her straight into the absolute worst nightmares imaginable in the terrifying underworld of global human trafficking.
Stuff happens so fast you get whiplash, like
Freida Pinto's hair looks a little too glossy in the third act, which isn't a massive deal, but it kept pulling me out of a brothel basement that otherwise smelled of damp concrete and stale chewing tobacco. Tabrez Noorani directs Love Sonia like a man standing very close to a blast furnace, terrified that if he steps back even an inch the audience might look at their phones. It is a grueling piece of work, relentless in how it tracks a