1st Star for Manish Jha for the courage to say what he believes in.
2nd Star to the cast for delivering stellar performances.
3rd Star to Sridevi Kapoor & Co. for bringing out the movie to the masses.
4th Star so that all of you notice the 4 star rating and go watch the movie!

Films are made for two purposes - a) as escapism from reality and b) to depict the harsh reality. Matrubhoomi falls in the latter category - one of the few instances where Bollywood has deviated from the happy go lucky into a stark and dark subject.

Director Manish Jha shows us the grim, real world in which women are dwindling in numbers and power and exist for one purpose alone - to sexually gratify men.

Ramcharan (Sudhir Pandey) fathers five sons; four of them are desperate to get married. The problem: there are just no women in the village. He recruits the help of Panditji (Piyush Mishra) who discovers Kalki (Tulip Joshi) after a lot of trouble. Except Sooraj (Sushant Singh) all the other brothers look like rogues and treat Kalki as a toy who is suppose to please them.

The transformation of Kalki from a free girl to a woman bonded to five husbands, and then reduced to an animal is simply amazing. She barely utters 10 words in the movie. There is also a pinch of hunour which adds to the film's overall brilliance. Various critical issues are touched upon by the filmmaker from homsexuality to casteism which are quite...

in your face.

After watching Matrubhoomi, you are perturbed by the problem of the low sex ratio in India because of female foeticide and infanticide. With a gripping background score, Matrubhoomi's essence lies in its subject matter. You are sure to walk out of the theatre with many scenes leaving an impact on you. It's good to see a movie with substance arrive on our screens after a while.