Assi’ Movie Review: A Social Drama That Expects Complete Surrender

Anubhav Sinha’s latest Assi is a uniquely uncomfortable film to watch. There are 2 reasons the 1st by design. The title lays it out approximately 80 women are sexually assaulted in India every day. The film is built to convey the full force of this number. It revolves around one such case opening with what it looks like a regular day in the life of Parima a Kerala-born schoolteacher residing in Delhi with her husband and son. There’s a tangible undercurrent to her middle-class routine something bad is around the corner. While returning from a staff party one night it happens 5 men pull her into a moving car and rape her for hours repeatedly and brutally. She is dumped on a railway track. Its 2025 but the ghost of 2012 hangs heavy. Its national news. The law enforcement trial by media and justice mechanisms take over.