The Sabarmati Report
U/A: Drama
Dir: Dheeraj Sarna
Cast: Vikrant Massey, Raashii Khanna, Ridhi Dogra
Rating: 1.5/5

India is now Bharat. Hindi is the country’s new identity. Hindu-Muslim... Just some of the words and sentences that make up the countless WhatsApp forwards that greet us on a regular basis, especially if we are part of those unfortunate society and office groups. Imagine these opinions, often passed as truth, fleshed out into a screenplay, and you get The Sabarmati Report.

Vikrant Massey, Raashii Khanna, and Ridhi Dogra lead this drama that claims to open our eyes to the truth that has remained invisible for the last 22 years. Dheeraj Sarna has helmed the film that has Ektaa R Kapoor as one of its producers. The film revisits the 2002 Sabarmati Express fire tragedy that led to the death of 59 passengers. Sarna designs the film as an investigation into the incident as well as an exhausting takedown of the Indian media. Dogra is a star reporter of a fictional channel, EBT News, who, along with cameraperson (Massey), goes to Godhra, Gujarat, to cover the burning of two bogies of the Sabarmati Express. On the basis of their ground reporting, including interactions with people present at the site, both of them are led to believe that what is being called an accident is a conspiracy.