A young IPS officer’s new posting in rural India has him confronting caste disparities and uncomfortable truths in the face of a gruesome crime. When three girls go missing in the fictional village of Lalgaon, two of them are found dead and there is no trace of the third one. Where is she and who is responsible for this heinous act?
Direction
Sinha turns procedural tropes into slow-motion societal indictment.
Acting
Khurrana's wide-eyed privilege-cracking is his career's quietest revolution.
Writing
The 'sir, this is India' scene should be taught in schools.
Director
Anubhav Sinha
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Title references Article 15 of India's Constitution, which prohibits caste discrimination—yet the film opened to protests and demands for bans in some regions.
Lalgaon is fictional but composites real atrocities including the 2014 Badaun gang-rape and 2016 Una floggings; Sinha interviewed Dalit activists to avoid savior-narrative pitfalls.
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