New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- The trial for Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist captured alive in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has just begun when public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam (Rajkummar Rao) plays his first hand. He refers to the defense attorney, Abbas Kazmi (Sikandar Khen), as "terrorist lawyer"; when Kazmi objects, he says he meant "terrorist's lawyer". Later in the film, Kazmi brings this up with Nikam, tells him how it stings to be called that when you're Muslim. Nikam says it wasn't personal and that's the last we see of Kazmi.

Unwittingly or not, the lawyer's strategy is echoed by the film. Nikam knows his wordplay will be censured but says it anyway, for the drama and the swarm of reporters. Prahaar, directed by Avinash Arun and written by Su...