Assi builds its case by asking difficult questions about responsibility and about the society and machinery that make such acts possible.

Assi has flaws, but is never not an urgent, imperative call to arms. Watch it.

High-brow cinema is clearly unable to penetrate the mass psyche of a population caught up in unending troubles. And as such, Anubhav Sinha’s ‘Assi’ is an important and necessary film, despite its limited cinematic achievement.

Led by a fiercely committed ensemble, this moral interrogation of rape culture by filmmaker Anubhav Sinha dissects the anatomy of sexual violation and the perilous world we have built for our children