The Kidnapping of a Home Minister is a big deal and the Madaari(so named because he makes the political class and their minders dance to his tunes) fueled by victimization, anger and a vigilante zeal to cleanse the system sets out to show the Political class that the Aam Aadmi matters too.
This is Irrfan Khan’s debut home production and it shows. Only he would have dared to pit himself as a canny protagonist fighting fire with fire in a solo hero project where the other known player Jimmy Sheirgill is merely a supportive foil for his aam aadmi rebellion against the ruling class. We’ve seen ‘Inquilab’ and many others before and after it, trying to cleanse the system of the corrupting rot represented by greedy conscienceless politicians. Combine those threads with the ‘A Wednesday’ story-telling device and you get ‘Madaari Sshhh.Desh So Raha Hai.’