The movie is an honest attempt at highlighting the negatives of small-town India, starts on the wrong foot, and never recovers from this basic flaw. Do not look for surface gloss in ‘Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho’. There is none. It is after all a film about a baffled buffalo whose plight is meant to show us why the law is such a blind ass. For those looking for a break from the Bollywood staple of star-studded, buffed up, feel-good entertainers, this film might be two hours and a bit well spent. But be warned! It’s a blend of the unabashedly scatological and the wildly absurd may not be for overly touchy palates. ‘Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho’ also takes religious waffle, social oppression and gender politics into its wobbly narrative sweep. It frequently equates the predicament of exploited humans with that of the four-legged titular creature tethered to a destiny that it has absolutely no control over. An ensemble cast of seasoned character actors who know their onions inside out but aren't quite sure of their Haryanvi dictions raises ‘Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho’ a few notches above the median.

Director Vinod Kapri's Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho, an honest attempt at highlighting the negatives of small-town India, starts on the wrong foot, and never recovers from this basic flaw. Starring Annu Kapoor, Ravi Kishen, Hrishitaa Bhatt and Om Puri in lead roles, crassness is not the only flaw in Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho. It's satire, more specifically satire that is not biting enough, is another big problem with this film. To be fair, the film tries to talk about mostly everything that plagues our villages: False police cases as tools to harrass poor villagers, misogyny, even hypocrisy that passes of as rituals in our society. But the sad part is that Kapri, who's also written the film, fails to tell a cohesive story in the 135 minutes he's got. For all the satire he's tried to pull off, he only manages to use the lamest, and the most absurd metaphors. In his effort to make a realistic film, Kapri has ended up with cheap and vulgar dialogues and crude portrayal of the milieu where his story is set. The excessive use of cuss words and explicit jokes are too forced to even bring a smile on your face.  Despite actors like Om Puri, Sanjay Mishra and Ravi Kishan, even the performances are not up to the mark. While Om Puri and Sanjay Mishra seem to be victims of the over-dramatised screenplay, the others, like Hrishitaa Bhatt, Ravi Kishan and Rahul Bagga, seem to be sleepwalking through the shooting.

The script is filled with numerous ROFL-inducing moments, and consummate actors as they are, the trio of Kapoor, Kishan and Mishra is a delight to watch. However, there are those moments when one is bound to get irritated as the three overdo it. Rahul Bagga, who had upped the Indian moviegoer's curiosity back when his Mastram had hit the theatres in 2013, isn't given much scope of talking, and emotes silently for most part of the film. Hrishita Bhatt, after a point, seems on a perpetual OTT trip. Numerous scenes in the film stand out for their comic elements. Despite the uniqueness of the script and the fact that it could have been a potent, caustic indictment of the society that is the Khap-ruled villages in the interiors of India, the key point remains the words 'could have been'. Vinod Kapri's debut into Bollywood on the back of his 'Miss Tanakpur' buffalo is a bumpy ride. Heaps of squandered potential make one sigh at Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho. Added to that is the speed of the narrative. While the story is somewhat neatly paced till the interval, it is post the midpoint that it starts faltering. Crisper editing could have done wonders to Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho. . In all, Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho is an okay-ish one-time watch. It has as its core a real story, but in the process of dramatisation, the sting is left blunt. Watch it for a somewhat askew view of the bizarre-fest called Rural India.

Do not look for surface gloss in Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho. There is none. It is after all a film about a baffled buffalo whose plight is meant to show us why the law is such a blind ass.For those looking for a break from the Bollywood staple of star-studded, buffed up, feel-good entertainers, this film might be two hours and a bit well spent. But be warned: its blend of the unabashedly scatological and the wildly absurd may not be for overly touchy palates. For all its obvious flaws, television journalist-turned-filmmaker Vinod Kapri's debut is a meaningful and bruising satire on a pliable judicial system that cannot protect the weak and the meek.Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho is out to employ humour to make a point and it does not shy away from adopting means that border on the unabashedly unrefined, take it or lump it.  An ensemble cast of seasoned character actors who know their onions inside out but aren't quite sure of their Haryanvi dictions raises Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho a few notches above the median. Recommended with a rider: this certainly isn't time-pass fare.

Journalist-turned-filmmaker Vinod Kapri's debut feature Miss Tankapur Haazir Ho is a social satire replete with many amusing elements.The story of a young man accused of raping a buffalo and consequently being forced to marry it by the village panchayat is based on true events and that suitably piqued Kapri’s interest. Like many of its peers, Miss Tanakpur takes off with a great premise but fails to realise its full potential.

Truth is stranger than fiction, and that truism can sometimes become the fulcrum of a film. ‘Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho’ hangs itself on a preposterous peg : can a buffalo be, err, to put it delicately, sexually assaulted by a human? This could have been a sharp black comedy with a strong sense of place , mining its superb absurdist premise : at one point, you are actually gifted the real meaning of that hoary expression ‘gayi bhains paani mein’. That is laugh-out-loud funny. You wish the rest of it was the same.