Sirf Ek Bandaa Hi Kafi Hai: Riveting Courtroom Drama
Linus tackles things head-on. He takes sides in his analysis and it fits excellently with our editorial policy. No 'maybe's' and 'allegedly' for him, only things in black and white.
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By Linus Garg
First publised on 2023-05-27 06:44:28
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Linus tackles things head-on. He takes sides in his analysis and it fits excellently with our editorial policy. No 'maybe's' and 'allegedly' for him, only things in black and white.
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Courtroom dramas, if made well, are always riveting. But Sirf Ek Bandaa Hi Kafi Hai (streaming on Zee5) is a notch above many such films mainly due to the excellent performance by Manoj Bajpayee and the well-researched legal repartee in the courtroom. As a committed lawyer who takes up cases he believes in pro bono, Bajpayee turns in a performance that leaves the viewer mesmerized. His P C Solanki is a lawyer who knows his subject well, researches thoroughly and does not let lawyers more experienced and celebrated than him to get away with loopholes in the law.
A baba is accused of sexually molesting a minor. The baba is influential, has resources (both money to hire top lawyers or bribe the public prosecutor and goons to kill witnesses and threaten the lawyer for the prosecutrix) and has a philanthropic image (having constructed schools, hostels and hospitals). The parents of the girl who is molested are ordinary people and have been the disciple of the baba for many years. When they find that the baba molested their daughter, they display immense courage to lodge an FIR against him and get him arrested.
What follows is the courtroom battle where the defense tries to get the baba off the hook by first trying to get the POCSO case dropped by trying to prove, by submitting forged documents and tutored witnesses, that the girl was not a minor. Then they object to the fact that the FIR was filed in Delhi after 5/6 days of the alleged crime although the crime was said to have been committed in Rajasthan. Attempts to rubbish the victim's testimony are made. Parallelly, the public prosecutor is bribed, an attempt is made to bribe the victim's lawyer, and witnesses are threatened, even killed. But sirf ek banda, P C Solanki (Manoj Bajpayee), spoils all their efforts and gets the baba convicted by coming up with solid legal responses to all their tricks.
Watch the movie if you like good content and impressive acting, with this being one of Manoj Bajpayee's finest performance ever. It will keep you hooked.
