Rashmi Rocket
Director: Akarsh Khurana
Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Priyanshu Painyuli, Abhishek Banerjee, Supriya Pathak
In a patriarchal society like ours, every field is full of additional struggles for women and there is hardly any place where we can claim that it is free from gender biases. In Akash Khurana’s directorial Rashmi Rocket, Rashmi Veera (Taapsee Pannu), a flexible athlete from Gujarat, has her world come crashing down after being given a false signal in a gender verification test at a place where she is at the top of her game. Was.
After winning three consecutive medals for the country, her talent and technique come under scrutiny due to her body type and functions that do not conform to pre-determined gender norms. His non-compliance with stereotypes has been highlighted several times in the film, whether it is Rashmi riding a bike or slapping a boy- her actions make those around her ask, “Chora hai or chori? “
When Rashmi fails the gender test, not only her competence but also her identity is questioned and the rest of the film follows her fight for justice aided by her lawyer, her husband and her family.
However, the plot is much more predictable and one of the very few things that seems new to us than what we saw in the trailer is that Rashami is pregnant. It deals with a poignant issue like gender testing on female athletes, but that barely scratches the surface, and the arguments never rise above common sense.
The film navigates through multiple genres – romance, sports and courtroom drama and does not follow the usual tropes of the said genres. It delivers the right kind of message without any pretensions and maintains the mainstream Bollywood entertainment quotient. But it has its drawbacks in weaving these disparate things together into one seamless end product.
Priyanshu Painyuli, who showed a lot of range with Mirzapur 2, Bhavesh Joshi Super Hero and Extraction, feels like a prop in the film. His character’s heart was in the right place and he became the hero’s rock hard support system but his talent could well be discovered within the screen space. Abhishek Banerjee does a fine job breaking his villainous image with his portrayal of a goofy, Dalit lawyer who begins his argument in court by addressing the honorable judge as ‘ma’am’.
Taapsee Pannu, who is known for leading female-centric films, does what is expected of her. However, she could not compensate for the shortcomings. Supriya Pathak as Rashmi’s mother adds charm to the story.
Aniruddha Guha’s screenplay based on the story of Nanda Periyasamy is an ambitious project that aspires to be a lot. This is not our regular sport as it attempts to pay tribute to the many female athletes whose careers took a sidetrack to a test that has no basis in modern science. However, the launch of this rocket is an unstable one and it fails to take off at the same speed it started with.
Now, the only thing one needs to focus on is Rashmi Rocket starting a dialogue and asking people why an archaic concept like gender test exists even after many instances of women’s career being terminated unfairly.
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