Chumbak
Drama
Director: Sandeep Modi
Cast: Swanand Kirkire, Sahil Jadhav
Rating: 

The last time I watched a minimalist drama, wholly centred on a necklace—Dileesh Pothan's Malayalam masterpiece Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (2017)—it turned out to be, arguably, the best thing Indian I'd seen that year. Sure, Chumbak, in Marathi, equally magnetic, with its heart in the right place (to the left, that is), also with a plot hovering around a gold-chain, doesn't quite compare. But then, again, I don't think the idea is to compare anyway.