Sexy Durga

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Sexy Durga

2017

1h 25m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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56%

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9 Reviews

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Two small-time gangsters pick up a couple on the run, leading to a long, claustrophobic road trip.

Elise Nakhnikian

Slant Magazine

03/16/2017

3/4

A couple's journey gone horribly awry comes to feel universal, an allegory about the violent misogyny that plagues India.

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Neil Young

The Hollywood Reporter

02/07/2017

A nightmarish experience in more ways than one, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's improvised, nocturnal Indian road movie Sexy Durga forces protagonists and audience alike through a grueling ordeal with questionable rewards.

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Anna M.M. Vetticad

Firstpost

01/16/2021

4/5

A chilling exposé of patriarchy's woman-as-goddess trope

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Elissa Suh

MUBI

02/27/2020

Sasidharan, though a skilled craftsman, exploits these unknown variables for the sake of mood and tension.

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Nicholas Godfrey

4:3

12/15/2017

South Indian director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's Rotterdam Tiger Award-winning third feature is a technically dazzling and wilfully onerous thriller that walks an uncertain line between advocacy and exploitation.

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Sarah Ward

Screen International

11/08/2017

Makes its points plain with the heaviest of hands, but does so with a deft feel for cultivating tension.

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Synopsis

Two small-time gangsters pick up a couple on the run, leading to a long, claustrophobic road trip.

Director: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
Producer: Shaji Mathew, Aruna Mathew
Screenwriter: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: Malayalam
Runtime: 1h 25m