Movie review: In this quiet, devastating critique of the antiquated Indian legal system, a folk singer/social activist is accused of inciting what is presumed to be the suicide of a sewer worker in Mumbai.
The wheels of justice grind slowly and mercilessly in “Court,” Chaitanya Tamhane’s quiet, devastating critique of the antiquated Indian legal system. As it follows the case of Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar), a 65-year-old folk singer and social activist accused of inciting what is presumed to be the suicide of a sewer worker in Mumbai, the film conjures an absurdist nightmare of bureaucratic incompetence, indifference and social inequity.