Article 15 (2019) on Netflix
Ayan Ranjan, an IPS officer, is posted to Laalgaon, where three Dalit girls have gone missing. Two are found dead, and the police turn away the villagers who ask for help.
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Plot summary
Ayan Ranjan, a St. Stephen's College graduate, joins the Indian Police Service and is posted to Laalgaon in Uttar Pradesh as Additional Superintendent of Police. The local officers, Brahmadatt Singh and Kisan Jatav, receive him, and he soon runs into the caste discrimination that shapes the village; he discusses it with his wife, Aditi, by phone. At his welcoming reception, villagers beg the police to trace three missing Dalit girls and are brushed aside. Satyendra Rai, a college friend of Ayan's who works for the state government, behaves oddly at the gathering. The next morning two of the girls are found hanging from a tree; the third, Pooja, is still missing, and Ayan orders a First Information Report and a postmortem. Activists of the Bhim Sangharsh Sena, led by Nishad, demand justice.
Cast
- Shubrajyoti Bharatas Chandrabhan
- Rajeev Singhas Party Host
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Article 15 (2019)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- While shooting the film, Ayushmann Khurrana and the team went into a swamp filled with leeches to film scenes for it.
- The film is not based on one specific event but is inspired by multiple real-life cases of caste-driven crime, including the 2014 Badaun gang rape allegations.
