SUPER COP
There's something very satisfying about Pradeep Sarkar's Mardaani. Not just that it has a female protagonist but one who is truly empowered and doesn't get compromised by the filmmaker at any point either to make her rise heroically from the ashes as in the Zakhmi Aurat-type revenge melodramas laced with exploitative situations or even to underscore the villain's menace. She isn't run down by her bosses, ridiculed by co-workers or lectured by her husband for being the cause of his suffering or putting family at risk in the pursuit of criminals.
