Based on the incredible true story of Lal Bihari (popularly known and loved as Lal Bihari Mritak) comes Kaagaz, a film that examines the systematic failure that is the social and political fabric of India. “The system” as many of us know, is a constant topic of inspection, debate and dissection in the arts across the world and rightfully so. With its endless flaws, injustices and unequal hierarchies, introspection and change may be the need of the moment. Written and directed by Satish Kaushik and starring Pankaj Tripathi in its titular role, Kaagaz is produced by none other than Salman Khan.
In Kaagaz, we go back in time to a now familiar landscape of the exuberant and energetic North India. Uttar Pradesh in all its dusty, chaotic, sensory overload existence and side by side stand its luscious green farms, stretching for miles and the simplicity and gruelling rural life. There is localisation, humour, texture and taste. There are the colours, the sounds and the nostalgia.
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