Share
Court (2015)
Movie
Released
A multilingual, Marathi-centred film directed by Chaitanya Tamhane, also using Hindi, Gujarati and English. An elderly protest singer's trial reveals how procedure can continue while understanding remains absent. The camera's patient distance lets offices, households and routine adjournments expose the surrounding system. Pick it for dry institutional observation, with the warning that it deliberately withholds the brisk satisfactions of a conventional courtroom thriller.
Source
About Court
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.