Newton

Absurdist comedy in which a dutiful voting official tries against all odds to conduct a free and fair election deep in the Indian jungle.

"As India prepares for a general election with nine million polling booths and over 800 million voters – the world's largest democracy – the principled clerk Newton Kumar (Rajkummar Rao) is entrusted to conduct voting in a remote jungle village. He is challenged by extreme Maoist guerrillas determined to stop the election process, security forces who couldn't care less about the outcome either way, and a local populace hardly infected with the spirit of democracy. Newton is thwarted at every turn. In this superb, absurdist comedy, director Amit V Masurkar succeeds in interrogating the difference between the rhetoric and reality of democracy." (Sydney Film Festival)

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