Love Sonia Analysis

Love Sonia

Directed by: Tabrez Noorani

This film is about sex trafficking and it's definitely not an easy film to watch. The film starts with a poor farmer who feels that his daughter is a disgrace and the world that this story is set in, feeling such things are quite normal and they probably don't even know about women empowerment and they create the world honest to itself. The farmer sells one of his daughter to clear of his debts and that's a brilliant scene, where her sister gets to know that she's being sold. The sound of that scene is horrifying, it cuts back and forth to both the sisters resisting, shouting and the other people forcing them and trying to convince them at the same time. The editing of that scene was impeccable. The girl goes in search of her sister and she ends up at a brothel house, which is shot very well, it feels so dark. The soundscape of the brothel also gives us a feel of how that place is, we hear cries and moans of pain in the background and there's a scene where these sounds increase and she closes her ears. Both the sisters played by, Mrunal Thakur and Frieda Pinto did a brilliant job. I can only imagine how difficult it would've been for them to play the parts.

Manoj Bajpayee is brilliant as the bad guy, he looks at himself like he's taking care of all these women and he calls it home for them and he deals them with a lot of care. All of this is so horrifying. At one scene, he sells the girl for half a cigarette. Rajkumar Rao and Richa Chadda are good in the role they play as well. The film doesn't make you cry and make you feel better after watching the film, it makes you feel disgust and uncomfortable for you to understand what's happening in the world. It's important to watch these type of films once in a while, at least to feel grateful for what we have right now.