Newton - Movie Review

Directed by: Amit V Masurkar

Produced by: Manish Mundra

Written by: Amit V Masurkar

Screenplay by: Amit V Masurkar, Mayank Tewari

Starring: Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Raghubir Yadav

Music by: Rachita Arora

Cinematography: Swapnil S. Sonawane

Edited by: Shweta Venkat Mathew

Release date: 22 September 2017

Newton is a Bollywood Black Comedy movie, Being a low budget movie, Newton gained a huge popularity. It is also selected as the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. Newton revolves around the story of a disciplined government clerk Newton Kumar ( Rajkumar Rao ) who gets duty of conducting a voting in a Naxalite area of Chhattisgarh, India. Getting overcoming the fear of Naxalite and guerillas attack Newton tries hard to conduct a fair election. But gets disappointed when no one comes to polling.

Security forces at a gunpoint ask the villagers to cast vote, to which Newton opposes. Newton tries every method to educate villagers for voting and to conduct a fair voting.