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Synopsis: A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Chaitanya Tamhane
Production: Zeitgeist Films
  15 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
2014
116 min
Website
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The watch is not from here.

A relative had gifted it to me.

He got it from America.

Note...

Someone from their neighbourhood saw

Rakesh Shukla wearing the same watch,

and the watch was a gift from America.

Proceed.

But my client can also buy

a watch from America, right?

Please read the report carefully.

He has submitted the bill,

the serial number of the watch.

Yes, but can't he also buy a watch?

Yes, but how can he buy a watch

with the same serial number?

It says here that the serial number is matching

with that of the recovered watch.

How does it maker, the serial number

can be of the product itself.

What are you saying,

how will the serial number match?

How can there be just one serial number?

We need to look into that, sir.

We need to find out more details

of the product.

You do one thing,

take a date for the next month.

12th November.

Till then investigate all you want.

That's exactly what I was saying, sir.

Thank you.

Case number 134,

Sitladevi Police Station, Narayan Kamble.

How can I give bail?

These are all non-bailable offences.

Sir, I request you to use your discretion and

grant conditional bail to my client.

No, no...l can't do it.

Sir, if you wish, you can put restrictions

on his further performances.

No, no.

This is a Sessions Court case.

12 days judicial custody for the accused.

Case number 135...

One minute, one minute...

what about these people?

They were travelling in the handicapped

compartment of a train.

- Do you all plead guilty?

- Yes, we do.

Okay, fine them 500 rupees each

and let them go.

Don't do this again.

Move. Move.

Come on.

MUMBAI PRESS ASSOCIATION

[Voice on the P.A. system]

- So I will conclude by saying that if our constitution

believes in the right to life...

then it is the single most violated right.

Because the conditions being created today

are not suitable for survival.

There is another word for such

conditions, but I will not use that word.

Otherwise, I will be arrested for sedition.

Thank you, thank you very much.

Satyajit, thank you so much

for sharing your experiences with us.

That was very insightful,

and also very disturbing.

Next, we have advocate Vinay Vora.

He is a practising criminal lawyer,

who specialises in criminal justice and human rights.

He is also one of the founding members of a

legal centre called Nidaan.

- Ninaad.

- Ninaad, I am sorry.

Good evening everyone.

Today I would like to talk to you

about the Mohsin Parvez case,

or rather multiple cases in which I have been

defending him for the last five years.

Mohsin was first arrested in June 2007, in connection

with the Kalyan bomb blast case.

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Chaitanya Tamhane

Chaitanya Tamhane (born 1 March 1987) is an Indian filmmaker, known for the 2014 courtroom drama Court. It was announced as India's official submission for the 88th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film examines the Indian legal system through the trial of an aging folk singer in a lower court in Mumbai. Court is Tamhane's directorial debut for a feature length film. His previous work includes the short film Six Strands, of which he was also the writer and director, as well as producer. For Court, Tamhane was nominated for best screenwriter at the 9th Asian Film Awards and won best director at the 16th Mumbai Film Festival, among many other awards and honors. more…

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