In Sudip Sharma’s superb Kohrra 2, the inheritance of mist shadows over tomorrow | Bollywood News
You know the drill with Sudip Sharma now. He begins, almost ritualistically, with a dead body. Places a pair of cops at its periphery. Sets them loose in a landscape as violent as it is layered, where brutality is never physical, where nothing exists without history pressing against it. Crime, for him, has always been scaffolding. The genre is a device, more so, a necessary disguise. The personal is never spared from the political. It seeps into it, stains it, gives it meaning. The procedural is less an investigation of a corpse than an autopsy of a civilization. So the only real question is never who killed whom. It is: what is he excavating this time? What wound is he reopening under the pretext of murder? What rot is he tracing through the bloodstream of a community? With Kohrra 2, he turns towards inheritance; the haunt of what has already happened. The past not as memory, but as residue. The past not as nostalgia, but as curse. A past that is sociological as much as …
