Mom [Movie Review]

Mom [Movie Review] | I watched this one after watching several other Bollywood movies online. And Sridevi is starring in it too!

I remembered reading reviews online comparing this movie to several other movies, that somehow I could only remember a few. One of them is M4m4, a Malaysian movie where Nabila Huda starred in it and I reviewed it too. Another one is Kidnap with Halle Berry in it. 

And this week is gonna be about India's movies.

SYNOPSIS

Mom (2017) Trivia

• Starring: Sridevi, Sajal Ali, Adnan Siddiqui, Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Akshaye Khanna
• Directed by: Ravi Udyawar

• Produced by: Sunil Manchanda, Naresh Agarwal, Mukesh Talreja, Gautam Jain & Boney Kapoor

• Production companies: MAD Films & Third Eye Pictures
• Distributed by: Zee Studios & BSK Film Network

• Release date: July 7, 2017

• Running time: 146 minutes
• Rating: TV-MA 

• Country: India
• Language: Hindi

• Tomatometer: 67%
• Metascore: NA
• IMDb: 7.3/10

• It hit the silver screen on July 7, the same date that Sridevi debuted in the industry with her first release in 1967. 
• This is Sridevi's 300th film and was released in the 50th year of her film career. Sadly, this was also her final movie before her death in 2018 (she was 54)
• In the movie, Arya (Sajal Ali) keeps a photo of her biological mother. Ironically, Sajal Ali's mother passed away due to cancer when she was shooting the film. 
• This is the first time that A.R. Rahman has given music for a Sridevi film. 

Mrs Devki is a popular but strict biology teacher. In one incident, a student, Mohit sends an offensive and lewd video to Arya and caught Devki's attention. When she learns that Mohit shared a lewd video, she confiscates the phone and throws it out of the window. 

Arya is Devki's stepdaughter who is distant and cold to her stepmother as she still cannot accept the loss of her mother (possibly death, despite Devki's numerous effort to approach her. 

In order to win Arya's heart, she reluctantly allows Arya to attend a party with her friends during Valentine's Day at a farmhouse called Zodiac Farms. At the party, Mohit tries again to court Arya but Arya's heart is set on another boy. Charles, Mohit's cousin tries to show Mohit how it is done by drugging a drink that he offers to Arya but was snatched by her friend. 

Hurt and embarrassed that Arya rejected him, Charles along with Mohit and two other guys, Joginder and Babu Ram (the security guard at Zodiac Farm), kidnaps Arya as she leaves the party. They rape her inside a car and dumps her in a drain, leaving her for dead. 

Meanwhile, Devki is frantic as Arya is not home after calling in a few hours earlier and her phone cannot be reached. She goes to the farm but couldn't find Arya and when she reports Arya's missing at the police station, it seems that nobody can do anything.

As she was leaving the station, a private detective, DK offers his service, to which Devki pays no mind. 

Arya was found by a passerby and brought to the hospital, barely alive. She undergoes various operations to save her life. When she finally comes to three days later, the police immediately takes her statement. 

Inspector Matthew quickly rounds up the attackers. However, the case falls apart when Asya was found to be drinking, according to the lab result, resulting in the argument that her memory is unreliable, the samples were recovered too late and were too weak to match the attackers. Thus, the acquaintance of the attackers. 

Devki loses her faith in the law and the police and seeks assistance from DK to get information about the attackers. 

One by one, the attackers get punished. 

Who is punishing the attackers? Will the law allows it?

MY REVIEW

Plot: 4.9/ 5.0 I was transfixed to the monitor the entire movie. I love the plot - how the mother devises her plan and execute them well. Be wary of mothers OK!

Man, I cried at the beginning of the movie when I saw how dedicated Devki is in winning Arya's love but Arya was literally being an ass towards her. 

Cast: 4.9/ 5.0 The cast was great - everyone including the attackers! 

Will I watch it again: Yes, and this time I wanna bring my crier-friends to watch it with me!

The pictures are taken from multiple sources on the Internet. Thank you.

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