![]() It’s an ugly world, organized on the basis of caste pride and violent patriarchy, and Chaubey doesn’t allow much grace or human feeling to creep in. Sonchiriya is similarly jarring, a pitiless look at the Chambal ravines at the time of the Emergency, when the police had started cracking down on the big gangs – just as Peckinpah’s film was an end-of-the-West Western. The Wild Bunch was a revisionist Western, an interrogation of the genre that lay bare the brutality of the Old West. If this is indeed an inspiration, it’s an apt one. ![]() Like Man Singh’s men, the outlaws are ambushed and many die in a shootout, leaving a small group to soldier on. ![]() The first thing they see is a group of children watching with delight as a nest of ants overwhelms two live scorpions. Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) also has a group of outlaws riding into town to stage a robbery. Both the opening image and the first movement of Sonchiriya are likely nods to an older film in a genre that’s analogous to the dacoit film – the Western.
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