LAW Review: Fails to Narrate a Unique Storyline!

With people adjusting to the new normal and enjoying a handful of new releases on the OTT platforms, Raghu Samarth’s LAW becomes the first Kannada movie to find its way on Amazon Prime Video. LAW produced by ‘Power Star’ Puneeth Rajkumar, depicts how pieces of evidence alone play a crucial role in our judicial system to obtain justice. Being a courtroom drama with a conventional ending, let’s find out if this movie managed to keep me on the edge-of-my-seat. LAW Movie Review

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The storyline of LAW movie kicks off with Nandhini (Ragini Prajwal), a law graduate, becomes a victim of rape by a gang of three men, who are from a powerful background. After her family and the police find themselves in a hopeless situation, she fights against the accusers all by herself without any experience as a lawyer.

The accused not being sure about the crime as they were drunk, and Nandhini being the only one aware of the truth. The remainder of the movie showcases what actually happened at the crime scene and who made up their own story, and the role of Nandhini’s Mentor, Jagadish Prakash (Achyuth Kuma) behind this case.

LAW revolves entirely around Nandhini, and Ragini Prajwal suited well in her role as a young lawyer. She stood out from the rest and gave a solid performance, despite having a few character issues. Among the others, Hebbale Krishna, in a supporting role, is offered with a decent amount of screen-time as the crime branch officer, Parthasarathy Brahmma.

The slightly confusing screenplay made me restless, but it helped the movie to maintain the suspense till the interval, and the questions that mounted during the narration mostly got answered one after the other and connected all the dots which are left open.

Director Raghu Samarth tried to differentiate LAW from the myriad of courtroom dramas with his screenplay and approached his script differently. However, the overall product fell flat at many places, primarily due to a predictable second half, and a below-par execution of the story that lacks emotion. The play in the courtroom seemed childish at times, and with nothing much intelligent or intriguing arguing elements, it was a bit tiring watch.

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The cliche scenes of social media, the song, and the comical scenes hindering the serious tone irritated me a bit and could have been avoided. On the technical side, Vasuki Vaibhav’s background music provided adequate support, but there were minor issues with the editing of the movie.

On the whole, LAW is a typical courtroom drama that failed in telling a novel and a compelling story. But with a different narrative pattern, it might entertain you to an extent. Watch ‘LAW’ on Amazon Prime Video here.

Rating – 2/5 | Grade – C

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