Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho

Movie Review
Release on: Jun 26, 2015

Movie name	:	Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
Genres	:	Comedy
Produced by	:	Crossword Films
Directed by	:	Kapri Vinod
Music by	:	Sushmit Sen/Palash Muchal
Writers	:	Vinod Kapri
Countries	:	India

Synopsis
Reviews (3)

Stars : Rahul Bagga, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Annu Kapoor, Sanjay Mishra, Om Puri

Story : Miss Tanakpur is a political satire that unfolds in the backdrop of a Love-story set in a village of Haryana. In the villages of Haryana the Pradhans in general have insurmountable powers. The Pradhan of Tanakpur, Sualal Gandas is no different. Like his contemporaries, Sualal rules his village using powers vested upon him by Khap. Not just the traditional court but when time comes Sualal manages to manipulate and exploit the bigger powers of the state i.e. the Police and the Law of the land. Ms Tanakpur is Sualal's Buffalo. She had won the Beauty pageant for Buffaloes in the Local fair. She had won the trophy because she produced more milk than all other Buffaloes in the contest. Serendipity will strike in this story. Ms Tanakpur thy name is justice.

NDTV

Do not look for surface gloss in Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho. There is none. It is after all a film about a baffled buffalo whose plight is meant to show us why the law is such a blind ass. For those looking for a break from the Bollywood staple of star-studded, buffed up, feel-good entertainers, this film might be two hours and a bit well spent. But be warned: its blend of the unabashedly scatological and the wildly absurd may not be for overly touchy palates. For all its obvious flaws, television journalist-turned-filmmaker Vinod Kapri's debut is a meaningful and bruising satire on a pliable judicial system that cannot protect the weak and the meek.

( 3 / 5 ) Read full review
Hindustan Times

Director Vinod Kapri's Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho, an honest attempt at highlighting the negatives of small-town India, starts on the wrong foot, and never recovers from this basic flaw. Consider this: When a film opens to a close-up shot of a bra shop in a street market and the next 10 minutes are dedicated to what the filmmaker thought was a joke on how women buy their undergarments in our villages (because they have no idea of their 'sizes'), you know very well the shape of things to come in the next two hours.

( 0.5 / 5 ) Read full review
Indiatoday

Somewhere in the bowels of Haryana, lies a village called Tanakpur. Gram Pradhan Sualaal Gandass (Annu Kapoor)'s fief of sorts, Tanakpur wakes up and goes to sleep on his orders, and bestows special titles on his buffalo at animal fashion pageants. Miss Tanakpur, the Pradhan's buffalo, is victim in a rape case. While the village priest (Pandit, played by Sanjai Mishra) provides fuel and tongue to Pradhan's nefarious schemes involving his buffalo, Bheema's (Ravi Kishan) physical strength sees their execution. Caught in this melee are Sualaal's young wife Maya (Hrishita Bhatt) and police service-aspirant Arjun (Rahul Bagga). And to salvage (read: worsen) the situation is a burgundy-haired, burgundy-moustached police officer Matang Singh (Om Puri).

( 2.5 / 5 ) Read full review

Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho

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