Movie Review NEWTON: The story of Nutan Kumar

After watching his Bareilly ki Barfi, I have become a big fan of RajKummar Rao. An amazing actor, who can still make his audience believe in Indian cinema otherwise movies like Jab Harry Met Sejal have already murdered that belief long ago.

Now coming to this movie “Newton”, it is refreshing to see this kind of a movie where you do not go with any kind of expectation but at the end get overwhelmed while leaving the theatre. When few brilliant actors like Raghubir Yadav, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjay Mishra, Anjali Patil and of course Rajkummar Rao come together on a theatre screen, you can imagine the fireworks they will create.

Every actor has done a marvelous job in this film. The movie revolves around the jungles and tribal areas of Chattisgarh. Rao has been given a troublesome task of conducting fair election in the Naxalite affected area where the tribal people had not even seen an electronic voting machine. He tries his best to do his job be it educating tribal people about the importance of ballet machine or continuously fighting with the chief of security (played by Tripathi). The role of Anjali Patil is also worth mentioning; she has a small part in the movie but leaves an impact in those few scenes.

There are few scenes in the movie which will make you smile but few on the other hand will make you re-think about our country’s democracy.

Director Amit V Masurkar has experimented with the genre of Black Comedy with his second film and has done a decent job. Both Masurkar and Mayank Tewari have made the narrative really smooth.

Surely this is the hard work of the entire team which has made this film an Oscar nomination worthy. Good luck to the team Newton!!

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