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"The axe forgets, but the tree remembers".

There are two types of people in this world. The first type mourn for sometime after struck by a tragedy and move on with their lives. The second type, evolves to become tragedy themselves. Raghav/ Varun Dhawan is the latter in this disturbing movie called Badlapur.

This movie throws plenty of ethical questions at you. Which becomes really difficult to answer under the circumstances, and it becomes increasingly difficult to assess who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist.

Raghav gets struck by a shocking tragedy, from which he fails to recover. But, he evolves into something heinous, something SINISTER. He commits few acts which are considered to be menacing to the human race. But, he must commit them, for the purpose of his life had now changed, from a loving father and a doting husband he had now transformed into a dark, rather a very dark REVENGE seeker, a monster, a psychopath.

Layak/Nawaz loots a bank, but while doing this crime, commits a very EVIL act, this one act pivots the lives of many people in the future. This one act evolves a GOOD TREE into something SINISTER. But, the problem is, the AXE is punished for its mistake. Both, by the law of the land and by the forces of the nature. Yet, it has to suffer the wrath of the SINISTER TREE, which in the first place was turned into sinister by BALEFUL act of the AXE.

At the end of the movie Layak will be indulged in making a chair. While doing so, he will have a satisfied look on his face and his soul, for he knows that he has been thoroughly punished and devastated for the crime he had committed. The irony here is an AXE whose job is chopping down the tree had matured into something good, something which can create something new, even if it was a chair which it had learnt to create, but from a destroyer it had now become a creator.

DISTURBING: This movie contains few disturbing scenes, which can haunt you for sometime. When i say disturbing, i mean the kind of feeling that you got, when/if you have seen Anurag Kashyap's movie UGLY's climax scene, where you get to see the rotten dead body of a beautiful little girl. But, these scenes make this movie what it is.

This movie is a perfect launchpad for Varun from a happy-go-lucky college going kid into a serious engaging actor. Nawaz was brilliant as always. The rest of cast does a pretty job too.

Sriram the director does a fine job. Screenplay is good. Script is good. This is a very rare movie delivered by Bollywood. Now i will wait for the Blu-Ray of this movie and watch it again and try to answer those ethical questions which this movie shot at me when i watched it the first time. 7 *

Being a guy i had never before cried after a movie, at least not when i was sober:) The lead is both funny and emotional at the same time. The daughter is very cute. The mother is damn selfish. I can relate myself to this movie in so many ways, i hope you can too. My mother tongue is neither Mexican nor English but i loved this movie just too much. I think Valentin Bravo deserved much more in his life, but its just life being stubborn. When the movie ends you will understand Valentin's sacrifice, bravery and why he tried to keep his daughter in the fantasy world. At the end of the movie Valentin's every decision is justified. Valentin is a true hero!