{"id":6092,"date":"2016-04-27T19:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T14:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:30:45","slug":"panga-review-kangana-ranaut-kabaddi-sisterhood-richa-chadda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6092","title":{"rendered":"Panga Review: An Effective Ode to the Sacrifices of Sisterhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> shwiny Iyer Tiwari\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">opens with a pleasing, fuss-free montage that charts a day in the life of Jaya Nigam (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/kangana-ranaut-bollywood-bully-fought-against\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kangana Ranaut<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). At home, she\u2019s a wife to a loving husband (Jassie Gill), and a devoted mother of a seven-year-old who sprouts one-liners (Yagya Bhasin); at work, she\u2019s a jovial railway ticket-seller.\n\nIn the initial scenes, a perfect <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/marriage-friendships-conversations-patriarchy-relationships-heartbreaks-love-bff\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marriage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> plays out: Jaya makes breakfast and her husband clears the plates before both of them set off for work. In the funny-until-it-gets-repetitive first scene, Jaya violently kicks her husband in her sleep and he reminds her that \u201cthey\u2019re on the same team.\u201d It\u2019s a partnership for the ages. On the surface, it seems as if she has unlocked the secret to the middle-class version of utopia. Yet, something sticks out like a sore thumb: Jaya\u2019s existence is devoid of any personal ambition. Like countless married women in small-town India, she doesn\u2019t have an identity of her own; her identity are her husband and son.\u00a0\n\nIn a matter of minutes, the film (the screenplay is co-written by Tiwari and Nikhil Mehrohtra; Nitesh Tiwari is credited for additional screenplay and dialogues) locates the source of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/budget-2019-dissatisfied-with-tax-exemption-millennials-want-free-netflix-subscriptions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dissatisfaction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Jaya keeps suppressing. It\u2019s here that we truly get to see her: Once upon a time, before she was saddled with the responsibilities of a caregiver, Jaya lived for herself. She used to be someone \u2013 a kabaddi champion and the former captain of the Indian women\u2019s kabaddi team \u2013 who was defined by her achievements and not her chores.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p><em>Panga<\/em>\u2019s central conflict arises when Jaya, indulging her son\u2019s desire to see her play again, decides to make a comeback in the national team.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nNow it\u2019s been seven years since she has set foot on the mud or the mat; not as much forced to give up the sport as much as obligated to choose her duty toward her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/indian-families-adulting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">family<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over it. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> central conflict arises when Jaya, indulging her son\u2019s desire to see her play again (Serena Williams and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/sports\/roger-federer-greta-thunberg-climate-change-criticism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roger Federer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are invoked as examples), decides to make a comeback in the national team. If marriage and motherhood once thwarted her potential, then seven years later, it\u2019s these two things that push Jaya toward realising her ambition.\u00a0\n\nOver a leisurely paced runtime of 122 minutes, Tiwari builds a predictable, by-the-books portrait of how often <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/still-a-girl-the-side-of-our-mothers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">motherhood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and marriage can work against women. The director tackles some grand ideas: how domestic labour holds most married women hostage in their own homes, and how even the most progressive and supportive husbands expect their wives to fulfill traditional gender roles. Men get to have families, women on the other hand, are forever responsible for their families, the movie convincingly argues. But these are exceptions. Overall, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hardly strays away from a fairytale approach, where obstacles are never too big enough to not be trumped and a change of heart is always around the corner. Essentially, it is the kind of underdog sporting tale whose sugar-coated narrative might have been easier to buy had it been borrowed from a true story.\n\nThe absence of any grey notes in the film \u2013 somehow, everyone in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is always on their best behaviour \u2013 can be frustrating at times, solely because the tension doesn\u2019t always feel earned. The closest the film comes to having a villain is a moody kabaddi captain, although Tiwari\u2019s refusal to demonise her is a nice touch. Even then, for someone who started off her career with two of the most exciting Hindi films (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nil Battey Sannata<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/bareilly-ki-barfi-review-kriti-sanon-rajkummar-rao-ayushmann-khurrana\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bareilly Ki Barfi<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), adopting a messaging on the lines of \u201cBehind every successful woman is a supportive family\u201d for her third outing feels a little too safe and dated. Yet, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> biggest strength is the fact that it works despite itself \u2013 a crowd-pleaser that continues to be effective.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1579848015.jpg\" alt=\"Panga\" width=\"732\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58575\" \/>\n\nJust like in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bareilly Ki Barfi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tiwari displays an ear for comic dialogue in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (a sequence that draws a parallel between <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/kabaddi-world-cup-2016-india-vs-iran-anup-kumar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kabbadi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and arranged marriage is a stroke of genius) and a knack for diffusing tense showdowns with humour. There\u2019s a tender moment where after a round of bickering with her mother (the endlessly watchable Neena Gupta), Jaya immediately switches back to complaining about her not bringing the sweets she requested for, that is immensely rewarding.\n\nAlthough the actual kabaddi sequences are nothing to write home about, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gains from the intimacy of its ensemble. Gill and Ranaut share an easy chemistry but the film\u2019s highlight is really Ranaut\u2019s camaraderie with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/music\/richa-chadha-arre-siren-uss-type-ki-ladki\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richa Chadda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (unfairly credited as a special appearance when she does much of the heavy lifting) who plays Meenu, Jaya\u2019s best friend, kabaddi mentor, and soulmate. It\u2019s easy to often forget how extraordinary Ranaut is as an actor \u2013 she turns in a lead performance that is unshowy and acutely aware of the space she should take up in any given moment. The film\u2019s best scene that has Jaya trick her hostel roommate is enriched by Ranaut\u2019s visible improvisation and her impeccable physical comedy. Complementing her is Chadda\u2019s boisterous supporting act that infuses a likeable quality to a plucky character who could have easily devolved into a caricature.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p><em>Panga<\/em> hardly strays away from a fairytale approach, where obstacles are never too big enough to not be trumped and a change of heart is always around the corner. <\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nIn that sense, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">works better as an ode to the self-sufficiency of the sisterhood. On more than one occasion, the movie hints that it\u2019s really the selfless sacrifices of women that allow another woman the luxury to be selfish. That it takes an army of women for one woman to chase her dream \u2013 the neighbour who doubles up as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/are-celebrity-nannies-like-taimurs-finally-getting-their-due\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">babysitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the mother who keeps the kitchen running, the friend who becomes a personal coach, and the roommate who turns cheerleader.\u00a0\n\nEverytime Jaya comes close to reliving her shot at past glory, it\u2019s on the back of these women \u2013 perhaps because they know firsthand what it must feel like to be taken for granted; to make a habit out of forgetting yourself. Tiwari sums up this thought in a moving scene where Jaya\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/indian-mothers-love-care-family\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mother<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> calls her to tell her that instead of only crediting her husband for her success, maybe she should credit her mother as well. It is these little touches that redeem the film\u2019s occasional generalisation. If <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panga <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had taken this advice as well, it could have packed an even stronger punch.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari&#8217;s Panga stars Kangana Ranaut as Jaya Nigam, a 32-year-old former kabaddi champion readying for a comeback after seven years. 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