Shuddhikaran -2023- Primeplay Original |best| Today

PrimePlay deserves credit for allowing this film to exist. There is no item song. No forced romance. The film is unapologetically literary and regional in its flavor (heavy Bhojpuri-Awadhi dialect with crisp subtitles). It trusts its audience to understand that the shuddhikaran is not about the girl in the room, but about the nation outside it.

As of late 2023, holds a 94% critic score on aggregator sites and an 86% audience score. Praise centers on its refusal to explain everything. Critics have compared its ambiguity to The Witch (2015) and its rural dread to Tumbbad (2018). Shuddhikaran -2023- PrimePlay Original