India, Sept. 3 -- A mother going to any lengths to protect or avenge her child is a trope that Bollywood has explored several times. Kajol's Maa, Sridevi's Mom and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Jazbaa have all put mothers at the centre of revenge and rescue stories. Gandhari takes a slightly different route, giving the familiar cat-and-mouse chase a twist. But does this mother's fight actually tug at the heartstrings? Let's find out.

Directed by Devashish Makhija, Gandhari follows Bani (Taapsee Pannu), whose daughter is kidnapped from a train in Joypurra. In trying to save her, Bani injures herself and is diagnosed with temporary blindness. She and her husband (Ishwak Singh) are left scrambling for answers, while the police in Joypurra, a fic...