1 ARTICLE 15 tabloid! rating: 4 out of 5

Ayushmann Khurrana’s procedural crime thriller

Article 15 is bold, bleak and bludgeons you with the indignity behind caste divides in India. Director Anubhav Sinha brings alive a tense tale of a police officer Ayan Ranjan (Khurrana) investigating the murder of two teenagers in rural Uttar Pradesh. It’s a hate crime where rape is used as a weapon to control the lower-caste villagers. Khurrana, who gives a wonderfully restrained performance as the cop Ayan, is achingly brilliant. At no point does Article 15 tell you what to think; it shows you instead.