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'Mulk' Movie Review

When you set into making a film on a controversial subject and that too a subject like Terrorism and on top of that in Bollywood, you are playing with fire. The lure to make it Jingoistic, Overtly Dramatic is so real on one hand and on the other hand one has to be aware of how not get mired into any kind of communal controversy.  The other challenge is how do you bring in freshness into the treatment of a subject like 'Terrorism' which has been such a done to death subject. On top of all this the crew does not necessarily have credentials that would make you feel extremely confident. Specially the director Anubhav Sinha whose filmography is decent and interesting but u can't call it outstanding at the same time Tapsee Pannu is capturing eyeballs ever since she has stepped into Bollywood but she has not yet been tested really well. With this background i went to watch MULK simply because somehow the trailer intrigued me. (Yes i have a golden strike rate wit...