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The Times of India

Reviewed by: Renuka Vyavahare | Rating:

You can run away from people but how do you escape yourself? You can silence the detractors but how do you silence your conscience? Under its rugged exterior, Sonchiriya is a spiritual puzzle on redemption, remorse and salvation, backed by stellar performances, captivating cinematography and provocative dialogue. Read full review

Times Now

Reviewed by: Gaurang Chauhan | Rating:

bhishek Chaubey has done it again. Sonchiriya is gritty, engaging, haunting, disturbing and highly entertaining. Abhishek Chaubey takes a complete detour from the fields of Punjab in Udta Punjab to the ravines of Chambal in Sonchiriya. The movie may be set in the heartland but it has been shot stylistically. And captures the soul of Chambal quite beautifully. But before we go into the technical details let's take a look at the plotline of the film. Read full review

The Indian Express

Reviewed by: Shubhra Gupta | Rating:

When Bandit Queen came out in 1996, it turned all the elements of the Bollywood ‘daaku’ movie on its head. Director Shekhar Kapur’s bandits did not sport dramatic black kurtas and crimson ’tilaks’. They did not spout florid dialogue, sprinkled with lots of Urdu. These ‘dacaits’ swore fluently, their curses had the crude flavor of the place. Their cruelty felt ingrained. Their clothes looked as if they had been cobbled together from what they had. They looked as if they had sprung from the cracked earth and brown ravines of the Chambal. They felt real even when we knew they were being realized for the film. Read full review

Moviekoop

Reviewed by: Moviekoop | No rating in stars

Abhishek Chaubey's dacoits walk the Gabbar gait, but without the crutch of the background score. Since we have grown up on the dramatic depiction of dacoits in Hindi cinema, the footsteps and the campy introductory music are sure to echo in our ears nonetheless. But then the camera shifts its focus to the flies hovering around a dead snake, and we know that Chaubey will debunk every myth we have been fed about dacoit dramas. Read full review