This movie kept showing up on my Netflix list, so eventually I watched. I like movies like this that show another side of India, the rural heart, with characters that are new and unique. However, this movie made me cringe as the characters were terribly cheap and creepy and lacking in basic morality. If the female were an independent woman in her late 20s, it might have been more palatable (e.g., she was sister of the officer who moved in, not his daughter). For these creepy "men" (really, they were just immature boys) to lust after a child (teenager who was still in school) was disgusting! All of them were psycho pedos- Billu, Anshu, Shila, school teacher guy...all of them. This movie seems to reinforce all the negative stereotypes associated with a rural man from that part of the country. Woman is not an object or a property. They had zero nobility in their conduct. I would have beat these goons the same way the police officer did. His actions, even though brutal and out of legal norms, were justified in this case before any harm could come to that child.
Review of Chaman Bahaar
