Bandar movie review: Bobby Deol anchors Anurag Kashyap’s strongest film in years | Movie-review News
4 min readJun 5, 2026 01:53 PM IST Bandar movie review: Not all men. Or all men. Anurag Kashyap’s Bandar places the viewer in a quandary: whom do you believe, a washed-out entertainer, refusing to understand the depth of his male privilege, claiming he’s innocent, or the woman, who claims that she is the victim of rape? This is a difficult theme to sit with. Given the real-life figures of Me-Too accused in the Indian film industry, when the movement was at its peak in 2018, are now almost all rehabilitated, and that the women who do find the courage to come forward, find themselves ostracised and out of work, the central focus of Bandar forces viewers into examining their moral and ethical boundaries. As I’m sure it’s meant to do. I found myself conflicted through much of the film, swinging between feelings of empathy and rage. On the one hand is the male protagonist who is flung into the slammer, there to be systematically debased by the horrors of prison: inhumanly overcrowded cells, filthy …
