{"id":6292,"date":"2016-07-02T05:54:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T00:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:37:19","slug":"thappad-review-anubhav-sinhas-film-on-domestic-violence-settles-for-easy-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6292","title":{"rendered":"Thappad Review: Anubhav Sinha\u2019s Film on Domestic Violence Settles for Easy Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span>ate into Anubhav Sinha\u2019s <em>Thappad<\/em> comes a scene that lays bare the film\u2019s central inadequacy: its writer-director\u2019s inclination to settle for easy solutions. When Sunita (a terrific Geetika Vidya Ohlyan), a lower-class <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/domestic-workers-suicide-protest-whats-app-wives\/\">maid<\/a> is violently slapped by her short-tempered, alcoholic husband in the throes of a particularly abusive episode, she slaps him back.\n\nThe crowd at the packed theatre I watched the movie in, instinctively cheered. The divide couldn\u2019t be any clearer: A married woman \u2013 the sole breadwinner of the house \u2013 prone to domestic violence, finally stands up for herself. Yet, it leaves an uncomfortable aftertaste: a victim resorting to retaliation, speaking the same language as the oppressor, can&#8217;t be the answer to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/trending\/domestic-violence\/\"> domestic violence<\/a>. The problem is, it&#8217;s a sequence designed to pander \u2013 to elicit extreme reactions instead of interrogating power imbalances \u2013 and goes against the very thought that <em>Thappad<\/em> is built on.\n\nSet in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/a-fire-no-ones-ready-to-douse-inside-delhis-violence-hit-ashok-nagar\/\">Delhi<\/a>, <em>Thappad<\/em> is centred on the lives of Amrita (Tapsee Pannu) and Vikram (Pavail Gulati), an easy-going Delhi couple, presumably in the early years of their arranged marriage. As a homemaker, Amrita\u2019s life borders on repetition: She wakes up before dawn and cheerfully performs a set of mundane household tasks \u2013 fetching milk, serving bed tea and breakfast, checking her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/child-abuse-crying-indian-kid-girl-repeat-numbers-viral\/\">mother-in-law<\/a>\u2019s sugar levels \u2013 that make her domesticity look like a rehearsed dance. The husband she is devoted to, treats her more like a personal assistant than his wife, rattling off a set of orders whenever she steps into sight. She\u2019s jovial enough to comply, having moulded herself into an existence that derives contentment by serving others.\n\nInitially, Vikram\u2019s self-absorption seems to be cut from the same cloth as any Indian man, who never needs to pay attention to either his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/made-in-heaven-zoya-akhtar-myth-bollywood-marriages\/\">marriage<\/a> or his wife. But it rapidly descends into an injurious brand of entitlement when an incensed Vikram slaps Amrita at a party in their home after a spur-of-the-moment spat with a colleague. Amrita\u2019s humiliation unfolds in public, witnessed by the guests in her home, which include her parents, neighbour, mother-in-law, and the teenage daughter of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/know-thy-neighbour-why-we-need-to-reconnect-with-our-padosis\/\">neighbour<\/a> (Dia Mirza).\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">That Sinha argues that a slap, even if it is the first and only occurrence, is cause enough for punishment deserves repeated reiteration, especially in a society that routinely trivialises violence against women.<\/blockquote>\nSinha and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul\u2019s screenplay mines the first-hand reactions of Amrita\u2019s family to drive home the indifference that Indians harbour toward physical violence. Amrita\u2019s affectionate mother-in-law (Tanvi Azmi) is more concerned about the guests being left unattended than her son\u2019s misstep, suggesting that a visibly pained Amrita plaster a smile on her face and let it go. Although taken aback, both her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/like-father-unlike-son-want-nothing-like-parents-millennials-boomers\/\">father<\/a> (Kumud Mishra) and mother (Ratna Pathak Shah, inspired casting) don\u2019t seem outraged enough. Amrita\u2019s younger brother (an awful Ankur Rathee) takes to justifying the actions of his brother-in-law while Vikram himself, disappears into the crowd, conspicuous by the absence of any remorse.\n\n<em>Thappad<\/em> revolves around the ramifications of this one night. But the sequence (<em>Thappad<\/em> is edited by Yasha Ramchandani) in question, plays out haphazardly, in a way that undermines its significance. In the fragmented, non-linear rendering of the events of the night \u2013 the film immediately jumps to the end of the party \u2013 Sinha misses details that would have revealed crucial faultlines: Did Amrita eventually go back to hosting the party? Or did she stay inside her room? Did Vikram come to apologise or did he continue sulking? And more importantly, do the guests react at all to this display of force? Instead, <em>Thappad<\/em> moves on, painting a portrait of a terse separation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/india-lowest-divorce-rate-in-the-world\/\">divorce battle<\/a> that threatens to go to court, but it\u2019s only a matter of time before middle ground is sought.\n\nAt over 140 minutes, <em>Thappad<\/em> is stretched thin, crumbling under the weight of the disparate threads of the plot that aren\u2019t all as rewarding. Amrita\u2019s plight is juxtaposed with that of five women \u2013 her mother, her mother-in-law, her maid, her brother\u2019s girlfriend, and her lawyer \u2013 each of whom negotiate with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/womens-day-fragile-masculinity\/\">male egos<\/a>. Aside from the sub-plot involving Sunita, which despite its half-baked progression manages to drive home the point that violence against women isn\u2019t restricted by class or social status, the four other parallel stories add very little to the film\u2019s depiction of gender imbalance and the viewer\u2019s understanding of domestic violence.\n\nThe narrative detour focusing on the fraught relationship between Nethra (Maya Rao), Amrita\u2019s lawyer, and her condescending journalist husband (Manav Kaul) in particular, is the film\u2019s weakest link, replete with an affair, unreasonably verbose monologues, and stilted acting. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s also <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thappad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at its most ignorant \u2013 Sinha alludes to marital rape nonchalantly without tethering it to any exposition; Nethra (seemingly modelled on Menaka Guruswamy) is shown to win a vague \u201clandmark\u201d sexual harassment case that feels like a dishonest last-minute addition.\u00a0<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Sinha and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul\u2019s screenplay mines the first-hand reactions of Amrita\u2019s family to drive home the indifference that Indians harbour toward physical violence.<\/blockquote>\nIn that sense, <em>Thappad<\/em>\u2019s exaggerated screenplay isn\u2019t equipped to distill any new insight on the Indian mentality toward displays of male force, taking refuge instead in existing tropes. At one point, Amrita tells Vikram that she did think of exacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/ajji-movie-review-drama-sushama-deshpande-devashish-makhija-rape-revenge\/\">revenge<\/a> by hitting him back but couldn\u2019t go ahead with it because \u201cher parents didn\u2019t raise her that way\u201d and in the film\u2019s climactic monologue, the blame is placed squarely on generations of Indian mothers for internalising submissive behaviour and passing it on as family inheritance. <em>Thappad<\/em> does make mention of Indian men not being chastised for stepping out of their boundaries a few times, but never really carries the idea of accountability through. Vikram and the men in his family are conveniently let off the hook, without as much a dent in their reputation.\n\nEven though there\u2019s a scene where Amrita acknowledges that maybe part of the problem was that as a wife, she chose to reduce herself to someone who could be slapped, <em>Thappad<\/em> shies away from confronting how Indian men, even the most well-meaning ones, feel a certain degree of ownership towards their women. It\u2019s a glaring shortcoming, for any conversation on violence against women is redundant without an acknowledgement of the source of male entitlement. Their relationship is also surprisingly sexless, that limits the film from painting a complete picture of existing power equations in a marriage. Where the film justifies itself, is in taking a potent stand against a hierarchy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/kabir-singh-can-learn-violent-men-kumbalangi-nights\/\">violence<\/a> \u2013 Indians have a tendency to pay attention to domestic violence only when it is of a certain degree.\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59904\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1582878366.png\" alt=\"thappad\" width=\"724\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Thappad does make mention of Indian men not being chastised for stepping out of their boundaries a few times, but never really carries the idea of accountability through.<\/p>\n<p>\/T-Series<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\nThat Sinha argues that a slap, even if it is the first and only occurrence, is cause enough for punishment deserves repeated reiteration, especially in a society that routinely trivialises violence that doesn&#8217;t leave physical scars on women. The one moment when <em>Thappad<\/em> lives upto its intentions comes through a striking backstory centred on Amrita\u2019s parents that makes a point about about how daily misogyny is fused into gender roles in marriages. It\u2019s the closest Sinha comes to revealing the insidious web of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/upper-class-feminist-benefits-patriarchy\/\">patriarchy<\/a> that forces men to become oppressors, sometimes even without intending to. Shah and Mishra are in terrific form as is Pannu, channelling her inner disappointment and awareness through silences and gazes, and it is the scenes that have these three actors that lend <em>Thappad<\/em> emotional depth.\n\nIn an interview before the film&#8217;s release, Pannu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/movies\/bollywood\/story\/taapsee-pannu-anubhav-sinha-s-thappad-is-this-year-s-pink-1641325-2020-01-29\">insisted<\/a> that, \u201cThappad is this year\u2019s <em>PINK<\/em>\u201d. 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