The heroine of Bawri Chhori is on an unusual quest: to travel from India to London, find her runaway husband and feed him to the pigs. Ar...
The heroine of Bawri Chhori is on an unusual quest: to travel from India to London, find her runaway husband and feed him to the pigs.
Armed with a list of Abhishek’s last-known contacts and loads of anger, Radhika (Aahana Kumra) arrives in the British capital and proceeds to put her plan into motion. Along the way, she meets characters who deepen her understanding of both womanhood and immigration. At least, that is what we think the screenplay, by director Abhishek Jaiswal and Prateek Payodhi, wants to convey.
The Eros Now original film is chopped up into a series of scenes as chunky as the bits of bacon that Radhika studies as part of her research. Bawri Chhori works only when it slows down and stops trying to be wacky and wise.
Radhika’s foolhardy scheme and clueless behaviour make her an unlikely champion of abandoned women. Better than her harebrained ideas and the preposterous ease with which she navigates a foreign land are the relationships that flower from fleeting encounters.
Among the Londoners who steady Radhika and moderate her temper are another rejected wife (played by Niki Walia) and the half-Indian Anna (Rumana Molla). Radhika and Anna team up to find Abhishek (Sagar Arya) while making the time for some female...
