But it’s impossible for me to forgive myself as long as I live.” That Avantika Maken opts to forgive her father’s killer is just the twist in this tale of Kafkaesque conviction where the perpetrator and the victim coalesce into a frightening clasp of moral ambivalence.Īs the compassionate nun Sister Rani Maria’s assassin Samundar says in the second story, “She is large-hearted enough to forgive me. Only bewildered at the ironies that govern human life. He talks about what it is like to let rage take over your better judgement.

The disturbingly soft spoken Sikh assassin Kuki who tells his story. Avantika Maken’s bitter rage and uncontrollable grief spills over on camera as she recounts that fateful day when as a little child she got to know her parents, politician Lalit Malken and his wife, were brutally killed by a Punjabi militant.Įvery single detail of that blood-soaked morning comes spilling out in a stream of cataclysmic consciousness. Rabaru Roshni tells three harrowing and healing stories of loss and reconciliation all bound together by one thought: forgiveness.

So we have the opportunity to carry the message of absolution in places that are not tangible.Įven if I had to trudge to the nearest movie theatre to see this, I’d only be thankful for the opportunity to witness a film that oozes so much passion, it was to me, a religious experience. Rubaru Roshni(Disney Hotstar): is the most valuable lesson on human compassion and empathy that you are going to carry home from a movie but then again, this masterpiece on humanism comes directly to our homes.

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