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Wrapping one's head around the information dovetailed into the plot isn't easy. Somewhere between the truths and the web of lies that the two principal characters peddle lies many a tantalizing half-truth. It is, he replies nonchalantly: Lord Krishna uttered these words to Arjuna. The woman retorts: Now don't tell me this, too, is from the Mahabharata.

It is just as important, he asserts, to know the difference between truth and falsehood. As the conversation between the two characters progresses over a period of three hours, which is the time that is left before a surprise prosecution witness is scheduled to appear before the police and a judge with a damning deposition, the film goes back and forth over the murder mystery in question and lays various versions of the truth on the table, swinging from one perplexing perspective to another.Īfter a great deal of the story has unspooled, the wizened advocate asserts that a person who knows only the truth is a fool. The legal eagle and the woman play what quickly begins to assume the form of a cat-and-mouse game between a person who knows the truth inside out and another who knows only bits and pieces of it. That apart, Badla has its share of cops and detectives (including Denzil Smith as a non-nonsense lawman who appears in two-and-a-half scenes). Apart from the man who ends up dead in an out-of-the-way hotel in the Scottish countryside, the film has several other significant characters, including an overworked attorney (Manav Kaul in a special appearance), who draws the aforementioned lawyer out of retirement for one final hurrah, and an ageing theatre-loving couple who live in a home in the woods (Amrita Singh and Tanveer Ghani). Badla isn't, however, a two-hander at all.

Mankiewicz's Sleuth and Louis Malle's My Dinner with Andre. The interrogation, aimed at building a watertight case that could keep the woman out of the slammer, evokes memories of classic two-handers like Joseph L. Badla Movie Review: Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu in a still from the film

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