Haraamkhor is not restrained by its lack of money or good-looking locations. Shlok and his team use the geography of the place(windmills, mud, dry plains, dusty roads) and most importantly, sound design to underline emotions between a married man and a 15-year-old girl, that if spoken of loudly on screen, would turn Haraamkhor into a Mahesh Bhatt movie.
Thankfully, from start to finish, Haraamkhor eschews Bollywood-isms and the greed to appeal to any imagined’masses’. Haraamkhor’s filmmaking is brave, ballsy and confident.
The story revolves around a rural school teacher Shyam Tekchand(Nawazuddin Siddiqui) who develops a sexual relationship with his 15-year-old student Sandhya(Masaan’s Shweta Tripathi). There is nothing cute about this’relationship’ and it is a case of sexual curiosity mixed with immaturity from Sandhya’s side with blatant opportunism and sexual exploitation from Shyam’s end.