Pagglait review: With an ensemble cast and its heart in the right place, this Sanya Malhotra film only veers off-course when it becomes too heavy-handed.
Widowed soon after marriage, a young woman grapples with an inability to grieve, quirky relatives and a startling discovery about her late husband.
Genres
Hindi-Language Movies,Bollywood Movies,Comedies,Dramas
This movie is...
Understated
Audio
English,English,Hindi - Audio Description,Hindi [Original],Hindi - Audio Description,Hindi [Original]
Subtitles
English,Hindi
Cast
- Sanya Malhotra
- Sayani Gupta
- Ashutosh Rana
- Raghuvir Yadav
- Shruti Sharma
- Sheeba Chaddha
- Natasha Rastogi
- Rajesh Tailang
- Meghna Malik
- Jameel Khan
- Chetan Sharma
- Ananya Khare
- Bhupesh Pandya
Pagglait: Story & Movie Cast –
Pagglait revolves around Sandhya (played by Sanya Malhotra), a strong yet silent woman in a middle-class family whose husband suffers an untimely death a few months into their marriage. Traditionally, Sandhya is supposed to bawl, cry, and mourn her husband’s death, but she chooses not to. She is different and somewhat strange (as her family believes it to be) from other widows. When her mother cries and hugs her, she asks her to stop. Later, when the mother offers her tea, she asks for Pepsi. And when a friend, in the middle of a consolatory hug, tells Sandhya she found out about her husband’s death through her sister’s Facebook post, the latter drily observes, “Yes, the post has 235 comments.” She is seen gorging on gol-gappas and smiling. Sandhya is anything but meek and diffident. When the family realises that her late husband had attested an insurance worth fifty lakhs with Sandhya as its sole nominee, the family wants her to make ‘smart’ decisions. However, that’s where the story begins to peel more layers of her character. Sandhya must take her destiny into her own hands before somebody else does it for her.
