Sanjay Mishra and Ranvir Shorey both remain in the top of their form here. Everything about that scene is so good, it has the sad plight of the farmer, the worry of a father and a thirsty barren land hopelessly waiting for the rain to come. My personal favorite scene is a wide angle shot when villagers take the dead body of the farmer for cremation and Hedu enters the frame. Be it the detailing of arid, dry landscapes or the expression of helplessness on the face of the characters, all have been captured beautifully. Ramanuj Dutta did a great work with the camera. The cinematography of the film is top notch. Nila Madhab is good with the subject of the environment which we have previously seen in Kaun Kitne Pani Me and Jalpari, and he did an even better job this time. What seems like a joke is actually a harsh reality of the extreme weather conditions we are facing these days. Writer-director Nila Madhab Panda’s treatment to the story is quite mature, which is visible in what can be called as the only light-hearted scene of the movie- The teacher asks to the kid about the weather cycle, only weathers the kid can recollect are the summer and winter because rain hardly occurs on 2-3 days in a year. Scenes are simple but elaborate, which show the state of mind of characters not just with dialogues but with the body language too. They come from places with two extreme climatic conditions where one is worried due to lack of water, another is scared of the abundance of it.Īlthough film’s narrative is slow progressing, it still has the ability to hold you on to your seats.
Kadwi Hawa is the story of an unusual alliance of these two central characters who have stark differences in their personalities but share the same motive of saving their families. He, just like Hedu, too cares about his family. But he is not all that dark as he is portrayed by the villagers he has his own reasons. He is ruthless in his manner, so much so that villagers call him Yamdoot. Gunu Babu, Ranvir Shorey’s character is young loan recovery agent from Odisha. Hedu fears for the safety of his son, that he too will take the same measures as other farmers in the village did take. One of those farmers is Mukund, Hedu’s son.
The easiest way for them to come out of this problem is to commit suicide. The farmers are debt-ridden there and have no means to repay. Hedu played by Sanjay Mishra is a blind, grey-haired farmer who lives in Mahua where it hasn’t rained in years. Kadvi Hawa just shows the same thing to us. We know that climate change is real and one of the most urgent threats to humanity. We know that it wasn’t created by a production house but we all know that this disaster was man-made, no one person can be blamed for it but somewhere we’re collectively responsible for these extreme climatic conditions. No one said that it was a huge ‘publicity stunt’ by Drishyam Films, after all, what a great timing for a smog to come out of nowhere and put things into perspective? What a great practical marketing gimmick right? No, no one came because no one could. Just a few days after the trailer of Kadvi Hawa got released, Delhi faced the worst smog ever.