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She used to work at a beauty salon and passes her time by giving her father-in-law makeovers. But after a few failed relationships, Rani settles for an arranged marriage with Rishu, a mild-mannered engineer from the fictitious small town of Jwalapur. Rani is a narcissistic, middle-class Delhi girl with a Masters in Hindi Literature, a passion for the crime novelist Dinesh Pandit and deep desire to be swept off her feet by someone dashing, witty and volatile. We’ve seen enough feminist horror films to understand that this is high praise – it’s shorthand for a woman with a fiery spirit. Rumi and Rani, both played by Taapsee Pannu, are described by other characters in their respective stories as daayans.
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Rani, the Haseen Dillruba of the title, is a fine addition to this gallery of blazing characters with jagged edges. Think of the red-haired Rumi in Manmarziyaan Mukku, a girl from an affluent Pundit family who falls in love with the poor Muslim porter in Kedarnath or the mentally ill Bobby in Judgementall Hai Kya. She immerses us into purposefully off-kilter, usually small-town worlds, which are further disrupted by ferocious women who refuse to live within the Lakshman Rekha prescribed by patriarchy and society. Kanika is one of Hindi cinema’s most provocative writers. Which gives you a hint of things to come.
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Haseen Dillruba opens with the credit – story, screenplay and dialogues by Kanika Dhillon. Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey, Harshvardhan Rane, Yamini Dass