Movie Review: Pakhi

Producer-Director -Sachin Gupta

Star Cast- Sumeet Kant Kaul, Anamika Shukla, Anmol Goswami and Tanmaya Bali

Genre- Drama

Rating – **1/2

Starkly black!

Jyothi Venkatesh

Based on true events in the life of a 10-year old, the story unfolds the miseries of the webs of child trafficking. Pakhi (Anamika Shukla) elopes with her boy-friend, who promises her a career in modeling, but sells her to a brothel. She is lodged her in a den, euphemistically called a ‘dharamshala’ (religious abode) by its ruthless owner, Bali (Sumeet Kant Kaul). She toes the line and ends up being his favourite.

Into this milieu arrive a woman and two children, a teenage son Mauli and ten year old daughter Pihu, victims of an earth-quake, and sold off to Bali by their uncle, their family having perished in the quake.  The mother commits suicide, but since Bali squashes the matter with the influential Minister who silences the police, he escapes scot-free.

The film which deals with the travails of the poor little child is all about how ultimately she is able to flee from the brothel. Sumeet Kant Kaul is menacing as Bali though there is no back story to show why Bali becomes menacing while Anamika Shukla steals the show. It is the child star who is the scene stealer. The film comes closely on the heels of yet another film of human trafficking, like Love Sonia and lacks novelty and in keeping with its central theme, is starkly black.

There is soulful music in the film which is redeemed by the performances of the lead cast and its positive ending which drives home a ray of hope to damsels in distress caught in woman trafficking.

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