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Movie Info

Director:

Tabrez Noorani

Cast & Crew

Anupam Kher

Freida Pinto

Manoj Bajpayee

Richa Chadha

Tabrez Noorani
Director

Critic Reviews for Love Sonia

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (5)

This is socially conscious cinema at its most powerful and important. It might be tough to witness, but it's vital that we do.

January 31, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Hanna Flint
Time Out
An excoriating, urgent look at the sordid world of global sex trafficking, anchored by a head-turning performance from newcomer Mrunal Thakur.

January 28, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Liz Beardsworth
Empire Magazine
It is powerful filmmaking, but I found questionable the packaging of sexual violence with the uplifting notes of mainstream entertainment.

January 25, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Cath Clarke
Guardian
A worthy but lifeless passion project.

January 25, 2019 | Full Review…

Stephen Dalton
Hollywood Reporter
[Thakur] holds every scene, mostly in close-up. She carries the emotion. She gives the film a delicate yet defiant soul.

January 25, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kevin Maher
Times (UK)
Love Sonia has moments of power before it blands out in a nulling denouement...

January 23, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
This is a bracing and unsettling movie that never pulls a punch in depicting the horror of sexual slavery.

August 16, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Tom Beasley
Flickering Myth
At several points during Love Sonia, I found it hard to not question its real purpose: Is it really to highlight unimaginable trauma or fetishise it?

March 11, 2019 | Full Review…

Poulomi Das
Arré
Tabrez Noorani's film is credible and forceful, with an excellent performance by Mrunal Thakur, but doesn't quite escape the deadening air of educational drama.

January 28, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)
It's not an enjoyable watch but it's well made, authentic-feeling and very powerful thanks to fine performances from a cast led by Mrunal Thakur.

January 28, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Matthew Bond
The Mail on Sunday (UK)
Newcomer Thakur is excellent in a tough role.

January 23, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
The script does not let up...it gives them enough time to create a world around Sonia.

September 18, 2018 | Full Review…

Sucharita Tyagi
Film Companion