Thar (2022)

Directed by

Raj Singh Chaudhary

Genre

western, action, thriller, drama, crime

Country

India

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

16

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1980s India, a city man arrives in a remote village for exploration work but hides a secret past. His presence stirs up local tensions and triggers a chain of violent events.

suspensefulatmosphericgrittydeliberatetensemysterioussomber

What happens

Thar is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language neo-Western action thriller film written and directed by Raj Singh Chaudhary and produced by Anil Kapoor and Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor. Set in the 80s, Thar follows a city man who moves to a village located in the wilderness for some exploration work, but there is more to him than meets the eye. It stars Anil Kapoor, Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Mukti Mohan. It released on Netflix on 6 May 2022, and received mixed to positive reviews from critics, who praised the direction, cinematography, performances, dialogues, background score, and its homages to the Western genre, though some criticized its predictable story, screenplay, and editing. At the 2022 Filmfare OTT Awards, Thar received 5 nominations, including Best Web Original Film, Best Actor in a Web Original Film (Harsh Varrdhan) and Best Actress in a Web Original Film (Shaikh), and won Best Supporting Actor in a Web Original Film (Anil). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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