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ARTICLE 15<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     (a) access to shops, public restaurants, hotels and places of public entertainment; or<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     (b) the use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds or dedicated to the use of the general public.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 15 is the second in the list of the Fundamental Rights that the Indian Constitution guarantees to its Citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This movie as the name suggests is based on this very Right. Ayushman Khurana plays this young IPS officer who after graduating from St. Stephens and studying abroad returns to join the Indian Police Services to fulfil his father\u2019s wishes and gets posted to this back and beyond of Uttar Pradesh for using the term \u2018Cool Sir!!\u2019 with Shastriji \u2013 The Home Secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he takes charge of his office the area get embroiled in the missing and eventually deaths of two teenage Dalit Girls and the search for the third one. There is the caste equation in play and the need to maintain a given Social Order for everyone to live in harmony. His girlfriend who is an activist based in Delhi who acts as his emotional \u2013 guiding anchor and shows him the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.R. Ambedkar exhorted Dalits to flee the countryside and move to the cities to escape the shackles of caste. \u201cThe love of the intellectual Indian for the village community is of course infinite, if not pathetic,\u201d wrote Ambedkar. \u201cWhat is a village but a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism?\u201d This is what the setting in the film epitomizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This movie has three main stand out heros, namely :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Ayushman Khurana<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The last movie I saw of his was Andhadhun and in that review I had written that he is turning into 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century\u2019s Amol Palekar considering the characters he was playing, how wrong I was !! This is a film he owns the role of the anglicised Police Officer. The depth, the gravitas and the dilemma is such enacted perfectly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Anubhav Sinha<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 It took him nearly 17 years to find his calling in the kind of movies he wanted to make. From touching the Hindu \u2013 Muslim divide in Mulk and now handling the Caste Equations in this ones. He doesn\u2019t sugar coat the harsh reality of today\u2019s India. There is no holding back and and he spares no one and calls out the names as they stand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Dialogues<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 What crackling dialogue !! Hitting out on the political parties, the caste\u00a0 system and the system, to quote a few:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n