Just like the’smoking kills’ subtitle that comes on when characters smoke in the movies in India, ’Haraamkhor’ has a title telling us that sex with a minor is a crime, whenever Shyam(Siddiqui) and Sandhya(Tripathi) are in a clinch. Clearly, big brother does not trust the audience’s morality, or for that matter the filmmaker’s either. The director has called his film’haraamkhor’, a highly pejorative term that clearly refers to the school teacher, the man is shown to be a scheming little rat, and yet, an extra cinematic authority feels it necessary to guide our sensibilities in the proper direction. Later in the film, when Sandhya thinks she is pregnant and goes to the city to have a test done, it is surprising that we are not appropriately informed by a title saying’sex causes pregnancy’.
Haramkhor Review: Siddiqui’s face is a panorama of emotions. Haraamkhor begins with a disclaimer, presumably mandated by the censor board, on creating awareness about women’s rights and that sex with a minor is a punishable offense(also inserted during some scenes in the film).