“Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga”, released in June, is indeed a breath of fresh air from the other recent projects of Srijit. It is based on the character Gangaram, a village chief, who offers to sacrifice his life for his villagers. When the harvests at the village are bad for consecutive years, and he fails to attain any government scheme to support his starving people, he
A controlled lead performance by Pankaj Tripathi, a solid supporting hand from Neeraj Kabi help the film skirt around the pitfalls of conventional melodrama and rhetoric.