{"id":44226,"date":"2022-05-06T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/may\/06\/thar-review-anil-kapoor-violent-cop-thriller-puts-the-punch-in-rajasthan"},"modified":"2022-05-06T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:30:15","slug":"thar-review-anil-kapoors-violent-cop-thriller-puts-the-punch-in-rajasthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44226","title":{"rendered":"Thar review \u2013 Anil Kapoor\u2019s violent cop thriller puts the punch in Rajasthan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are hints of Sergio Leone and Cormac McCarthy in this Rajasthan-set mystery starring the actor and his son<\/p>\n<p>Raj Singh Chaudhary is the Indian actor, screenwriter and now director who has developed his career under the mentorship of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2013\/feb\/28\/anurag-kashyap-gangs-of-wasseypur\">Anurag Kashyap, the creator of the mob classic Gangs of Wasseypur<\/a>. Chaudhary has now made a punchy, nihilistic, western-style thriller, co-written with Kashyap, with hints of Sergio Leone and the borderland paranoia of Cormac McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>The setting is Rajasthan in the 1980s, but not the Rajasthan beloved of tourists and attenders of the Jaipur literature festival: this is the vast, forbidding and starkly beautiful Thar desert between India and Pakistan. Movie legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/audio\/2009\/feb\/19\/1\">Anil Kapoor<\/a> turns in a likable, authoritative performance as a veteran police inspector called Singh whose beat covers the remote village of Munabao. As he nears retirement, Singh has to deal with a sudden incursion of banditry and violence from drug runners bringing opium across the border from Pakistan, but also strange and macabre acts of violence that don\u2019t have any obvious motivation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/may\/06\/thar-review-anil-kapoor-violent-cop-thriller-puts-the-punch-in-rajasthan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are hints of Sergio Leone and Cormac McCarthy in this Rajasthan-set mystery starring the actor and his sonRaj Singh Chaudhary is the Indian actor, screenwriter and now director who has developed his career under the mentorship of Anurag Kashyap, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2179,71,69,62,61,1800,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-films","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thrillers","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44227,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44226\/revisions\/44227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}