There’ve been countless films made on the theme of rape and sexual harassment, which tie in standard strands of police procedural — crime thriller — rape-revenge fantasy, and we’ve come away from them disturbed, in the right way, to see how naked power and aggression can slam the victims to the ground, their legitimate pain never been acknowledged or addressed. Maatr is the rape-and-revenge thriller which questions this very thing rampant especially in Delhi. The story is about an idealistic school teacher Vidya Chauhan (Raveena Tandon) who resides in Delhi. She is the mother of Tia (Alisha Khan) and has a rather disturbed personal life with her husband, but she manages to handle everything with a smile. A wrong turn on a Delhi street is all it took for Vidya Chauhan’s (Raveena Tandon) life to be pulverised. The car that was conveniently close behind when her car crashed, does not rescue the injured mother and her teenage daughter Tia out of concern, but opportunism. Soaked in a haze of drinks, drugs and power, a group of men heap atrocities on the women, as a helpless mother is forced to watch her daughter’s life being shattered and sniffed out. Vidya is taken to the hospital and the moment she recovers, she gets hit by an appalling reality that Tia is no more. It’s the worst kind of nightmare one can imagine. Devastated, Vidya seeks justice from the police but she soon realises that the rich and the influential are beyond the law of the land. When her heartless and uncaring husband leaves her, when the police bows to political pressure and callously dismisses her case, when Vidya’s only support is her sympathetic but prickly friend Ritu (Divya Jagdale). Somehow there’s no enlisting of a lawyer, no investigation of any sort besides the cursory arrest of three random men on whom the crime is wrongly pinned. Vidya and her best friend Ritu (Divya Jagdale) decides to seek justice and approached Inspector Jayant Shroff (Anurag Arora), but fails miserably as Apurva is the son of the Chief Minister. Dejected by the loose police and the society, she takes the system in her hands and swears to take revenge from the rapists.