2014 · action · crime · thriller
Mardaani
Directed by Pradeep Sarkar1h 53m2014
A Mumbai police officer's search for a missing teenage girl leads her to the depraved world of child trafficking. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between the officer and a ruthless mafia kingpin.
Our read: Mardaani (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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