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Critic Review
Love Sonia (2018)It's a sad reality that sometimes, burdened by circumstances, parents do horrible things to their children. Love Sonia starts with a poor farmer (Adil Hussain), who seeing no way out, decides to sell his elder daughter Preeti (Riya Sisodiya), to Dada Thakur (Anupam Kher), the moneylender he owes money to. Anjali (Sai Tamhankar) is a middle-woman for a Mumbai based pimp Faisal (Manoj Bajpayee) and sells her to him. Sonia (Mrunal Thakur) can't live without her sister and runs away to find her. She meets different characters on the way. Madhuri (Richa Chadha), who helps Faisal run the brothel, had been a victim of rape before she was sold as a prostitute. She has hardened her heart, living in denial about her circumstances, turning into an oppressor herself over the years. Rashmi (Freida Pinto), was sold by her husband into the brothel and has lost her ability to empathise, living on the borders of her own make believe world as everyone she knows has shunned her. Manish (Rajkummar Rao), is part of an NGO which rescues underdage girls from brothels and tries to help Sonia. Finally, in America, she meets Selma (Demi Moore), who runs an organisation which helps victims of sexual abuse rehabilitate their lives..
All said and done, Love Sonia is a special film backed by some exceptional names. It falls short at places but is very informative and it portrays a hard-to-swallow reality in a very genuine way. Watch it only if you have the appetite to digest such drama.
Tabrez Noorani is known for his work as a line producer for Hollywood films set in India for a long time. Love Sonia marks his debut as a director and he too has made an impressive beginning. It's a well written, well crafted product bringing to light a .
There are other characters -- played by Demi Moore, Rajkummar Rao and Abhishek Bharate -- who resemble the niceness of the world, but the overall feeling is never really of hope. In Love Sonia, the good, somehow, never stifles the bad..
Love Sonia gives you a tight punch in the gut with its bestial truth, but at the same time, it makes you realize how a single thread of hope is still a powerful thing..
