Movie Review: Angry Indian Goddesses (Indian)

ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES (India 2015) ***
Directed by Pan Nalin

Starring: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anuj Choudhry, Rajshri Deshpande

Review by Gilbert Seah

The first thing that comes to mind when one hears of the film ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES is the reason the film is called that. The reason becomes apparent midway during the film when all the characters imitate the Angry Goddess Kali, the Goddess who destroys all evil with her anger. Each character do their best to imitate the Goddess as they pose (their tongues sticking out far as possible) for a group picture. Kali is a Hindu Goddess, the Divine Mother or Mother of the Universe and a destroyer of evil forces.

The film’s characters are not Goddesses in any sense of the word. They are more victims than anything else, but they try to live with their problems with the help of the group. This is the premise…