Rukh

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Starring: Manoj Bajpayee, Smita Tambe, Kumud Mishra, Adarsh Gaurav

Streaming on: Netflix

Divakar Mathur (Manoj Bajpayee) has died in a car accident. His son Dhruv (Adarsh Gaurav) has returned from his boarding school for the funeral. The death has opened a lot of questions about Divakar’s business, as he had been cheating by his friend and business partner Robin (Kumud Mishra). Divakar owed his employees salaries and the police was inquiring about fraud on his part, all a plot to frame him by Robin. Dhruv had been an angry kid, breaking the legs of his classmate in a quarrel, thus shipped off to a boarding school. He wants to find the real reason for his father’s death and get justice for him.

It is a simple movie with few characters and linear story. The creators did try to make it into a thriller, which it isn’t. At all. It is a quest of a son to get to the bottom of the mess, with people around him protecting him from the truth. All the loops and shock-value scenes are quite necessary. Get over those, and there is a beautiful story about a man’s protecting his people and his values and a son reconciling with the biggest loss a boy can.