2015 · crime · drama · thriller
Talvar
Directed by Meghna Gulzar2h 12m2015
A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.
Our read: Talvar (2015) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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