Panga | Bollywood Movie Review | Kangana Ranaut |

 in a pivotal scene in

panga Zion Ingham ex-captain of the

Indian women's Kabaddi team who were 32

is struggling to make a comeback says

make ma who or market Kois of naina hang

with a hand every mother understands the

specific hurt in this sentiment because

every mother irrespective of age income

bracket and background makes immense

personal sacrifices to raise a child to

be a mother is to be a constantly

roiling highly combustible fusion of

ferocious love permanent guilt it's

earning anxiousness and a residue

resentment at the opportunities lost

manga co-written and directed by a

Schwinn high octave re gets that manga

is the story of a woman so obsessed with

Kabaddi that even seven years after

she's quit the sport she involuntarily

kicks in her sleep marriage and

motherhood got in the way of her dream

to play for India but Jaya is it

outwardly unhappy she has a tender

loving relationship with her husband

Prashant and her son Adi she enjoys the

pleasures of domestic city but the

thought that she could have been much

more knows quietly at her soul like a

rat working its way through a hunk of

cheese she feels keenly the small

slights

like countless women she's just taken

for granted her son doesn't see her

relentless hard work either at home or

at her railway job after all he says

you're only selling tickets Jaya sits

behind the counter at the railway

station and watch his life going by but

when he finds out what star his mother

used to be he pushes her to try again

and Jaya decides to seize the day she

decides to once again take a bunga bunga

works on the strength of its

performances and its writing Ashwin II

co-writer Nikhil marrow throw and the

fish Suvari who's also been credited

with additional screenplay create a

lived-in world with characters who have

depth and personality Jaya isn't

obviously heroic she's torn between her

family and her passion and riddled with

doubts and insecurities her frustration

and vulnerability make her journey more

relatable and more triumphant

it also helps that Kangana Ranaut please

Jaya with skill sensitivity and wants

watch her in the quieter scenes like the

scene in which aya

going away for training just before she

leaves she stops and looks at her own

home with longing her uncertainty about

her decision is heartbreaking

all the seen in the hospital when her

son is born

her expression captures that rush of

love that a mother feels so beautifully

that it made me tear up this is a

terrific actor at the top of her game

and yet Kangana doesn't monopolize Bunga

Ashwin he gives the other actors equal

affection and attention Mukesh Chhabra

as casting is bang-on Punjabi singer

actor Jessie Gill is instantly likable

as a supportive husband who fights his

own limitation he's an Indian man with

zero training on how to be the primary

caretaker so all the things that Jaya

would do has routine become big drama

including an edible breakfast Prashad

struggle is a subtle salute to

homemakers whose hard work is rarely

celebrated at one point Jay tells

Prashant that if she had to make a list

of all the things she does to keep their

home functional it would fill a book

prashanta loves his wife but he also

sits at the dining table waiting to be

served his meals Jaya also has a job but

the home is her responsibility no

questions asked

this is the norm that Prashant decides

to break Jessie plays him with a

bumbling sweetness so you see his

shortcomings but you also root for him

Neena Gupta is reliably lovely as Jaya

small again the writing is so solid that

her character makes a big impression in

few scenes in one she's telling joy to

also give her credit in press interviews

there's such love and pride in her voice

and once again

Ashwini gently reminds us of the

tireless work that mothers do it's a

full-time job for a lifetime but the

scene-stealers of punga are Richa Chadda

as joyous friend Meno and yog ever seen

as her son Ali Meno is this tough

no-nonsense Kabaddi coach who tells it

like it is Adi has the wisdom of a grown

man but his precociousness never tips

into annoying which is a tough balance

these two get some of the film's best

lines they also deliver some of the

film's most potent messaging but

actually tempers this with humour and

lightness thankfully Bunga never gets

shrimp it does however get flat

in the second half I think after so many

sports films including the dishes of

masterful dongle I'm a little fatigued

with training montages and matches

we know that the underdog will

eventually win that is the cardinal rule

of this Pottsville so directors try

different roses to notch up the tension

here actually succeeds only partially

some will argue that Bunga is too

sanitized and optimistic that the actual

struggle of a mother picking up a career

again is much harder of course it is but

for now I'll take the warmth and hope

that this film offers and I hope you

will do if you like this review please

2020

Panga works on the strength of its performances and its writing. Ashwiny, co-writer Nikhil Mehrotra and Nitesh Tiwari, who has been credited with additional screenplay create a lived-in world with characters who have depth and personality. Here is Anupama Chopra's review of the Kangana Ranaut starrer.

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