India, Sept. 17 -- It's been 33 years since Sunny Deol famously thundered on screen, "Tareekh pe tareekh milti gayi, My Lord, par insaaf nahin mila!" Today, Daayra takes that iconic line and turns it into a meticulous drama about whether law and justice are really players on the same team, or often find themselves on opposite sides. But does it pack the same punch as Sunny paaji's legendary courtroom outburst? Let's find out.

Written (co-written by Yash Keswani and Sima Agarwal) and directed by Meghna Gulzar, the story revolves around Ajooni (Kareena Kapoor Khan), who heads an SIT investigating a police encounter. It involves multiple men accused of gang-raping a young girl and then burning her to death. The encounter was carried out by ...