• Antardwand

    Release Date: August 27, 2010
    Language: Hindi

    Genre: Drama, Crime

    Starring: Raj Singh Chaudhary , Swati Sen, Himanshi, Neelima

Plot

Antardwand is a film that stokes the sensitive, thinking viewer’s ire, concern and empathy. The boy- Raghuveer who has just appeared for his Civil Services exams is admonished by his father against marrying his pregnant girlfriend in Delhi. Distraught and defenseless Raghu terminates his visit home in the interiors of Bihar and leaves for Delhi. But before he could get out of the village he gets ABDUCTED by another headstrong and ambitious father of a girl wanting to have a potential IAS officer as his son-in-law. The boy is forcibly married off at a gun...

Antardwand is a film that stokes the sensitive, thinking viewer’s ire, concern and empathy. The boy- Raghuveer who has just appeared for his Civil Services exams is admonished by his father against marrying his pregnant girlfriend in Delhi. Distraught and defenseless Raghu terminates his visit home in the interiors of Bihar and leaves for Delhi. But before he could get out of the village he gets ABDUCTED by another headstrong and ambitious father of a girl wanting to have a potential IAS officer as his son-in-law. The boy is forcibly married off at a gun point much against his and the girl's own wishes. Once married, they are locked up in a room for days end till they consummate their marriage and accept each other completely....but do they accept each other in the face of inevitability? Groom Abduction or "Pakrauah Shaddi" so rampant in Bihar and Eastern UP is touched upon in Antardwand. The film is a peep into the reality that is mofussil India, a feudal India refusing to die-..it's a story where everybody involved pay a heavy price for the ugly patriarchal power play...it's a society rotting while the country surges ahead to be a global power.

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Critic's reviews

  • Taran Adarsh - Bollywood Hungama

    Cinema lovers are thirsting for novel and untold stories and ANTARDWAND is a applaud-worthy film that fills the void. Real, disturbing and shocking, ANTARDWAND, reportedly based on a true story, is a power-packed film. If you crave for new stories and oft

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  • IANS - NDTV Movies

    Set in rural Bihar where nothing works except the law of the lawless, Antardwand takes the firm and gripping route to expose a hinterland-headline - the kidnapping of marriageable boys by desperate fathers of wannabe brides.The finale is self indulgent in

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  • Khalid Mohammed - Passion for Cinema

    Gratifyingly FTII-trained Sushil Rajpal's Antardwand is worth the trudge to the multiplex if essentially for the eye-opening subject of bridegroom kidnappings in the Bihar badlands, where life is cheaper than the naarangi hooch swigged by those subsisting

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  • Preeti Arora - Rediff

    More than a social drama, Antardwand is actually a thriller merely because it's impossible to predict which direction the film will take. Thankfully, the film does not end in 'Bollywood' style.The film doesn't deviate from its storyline, and there are no

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  • Nikhat Kazmi - Times of India

    The film is supposedly based on a practice that is rampant in the backwaters of Bihar even today: Groom kidnapping. Indeed, a novel plot! But the novelty of the story isn't the only thing that makes Antardwand an engaging film. Director Sushil Rajpal tell

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