Sherni follows a village where people are getting killed by tiger roaming around when they set out to the jungle.What happens when Vidya Vincent, a new DFO joins the department and proceed with the investigation.
The film shows different shades of characters. Villagers raise their voice when they were denied entry to the jungle as it is needed for their livelihood. Vidya tells the villagers that it is important that animals and humans need to co-exist. But soon, we see the political interferences. From the contractor getting introduced as the brother-in-law of a politician GK and GK telling the public that this is their land in accordance to the upcoming election.
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The most important positive is that Director Amit never chose the path of thriller though being more of a cat and mouse game between the tigress and the forest department team. It add authenticity to the narration.
Dialogues were spot on and serves the purpose of conveying the importance of animal conservation.
‘If the tiger exists ,so does the jungle. If the jungle exists, so does the rain.If it rains, there’s water. If there’s water, there’s human’s life.’
Another dialog ‘If you go into the jungle 100 times ,you might see the tiger once.But the tiger has seen you 99 times ‘.
Similar to his previous film Newton, Amit has succeeded in adding satire to the narrative. For instance:Portrayal of hunter character.
Vidya is a character with a balanced emotion and Vidya balan as usual comes with a measured performance. Though the character isn’t challenging to his caliber, Neeraj kabi made the transformation of his character believable.
Cuts could have been sharp as few scenes felt stretched a bit.
Sherni tells the story of an officer trying her way best to serve justice for the villagers and the tigress in a flawed system. Do watch it for the message it conveys.
Watch link: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Sherni/0S81WK2J8PA2G2F7JTBSVW3V6G
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