Review : Savi : Modern day Savitri saving her Satyavan!

A lot of foreign films get adapted in Hindi and the latest one is Savi, which is an official adaptation of a #Frenchfilm ‘#PourElle’. Savi’s story takes place in #Liverpool, #England but if the location could have been India, it would have looked more authentic. #AbhinayDeo is a fine director and he has managed to keep thing tense throughout the narration. It’s a story of a modern day Savitri saving her #Satyavan.

Savitri Sachdev (Divya Khossla) is a contended housewife staying in a sleepy town of Liverpool in England, with her husband Nakul (Harshwardhan Rane) and son Aditya (Mairaj Kakkar). Out of the blue Nakul gets arrested for murdering his boss. All the evidence is against him but Savi has full faith in her husband’s innocence. When Nakul is sentenced to life improisonment Savi decides to free her husband by planning a jail break with the help of Joydeep Paul (Anil Kapoor). How she goes about it forms the crux of the story.

Adaptation is done well but if the story was shown happening in India, it could have been more convincing. Abhinay Deo has kept the proceedings taut and has used Anil Kapoor’s character to lighten the tenseness on the screen. The treatment looks sleek and the second half is more gripping. Music helps the proceedings on screen and the technical things including cinematography are
top notch. Divya Khossla is the backbone of the proceedings and she has shown loads of improvement in acting. She has done a decent job and should be proud of herself to have successfully headlining a female centric film. Harshwardhan Rane too is decent but he has a very limited screen time. Anil Kapoor steals the show hands down with his witty and mutiferous character. His energy lifts the film a few notches higher.

Rating : ***

By Keerti Kadam