As people have quietly discovered the film, read some tweets that’ll tempt you to watch the film if you haven’t yet.
Most powerful film I saw on @NetflixIndia #soni a must watch! It’s so layered and real. #IvanAyr your storytelling is just fab. I am numb. #GeetikaVidya #saloniBatra what a performance ?? This is the film everyone should watch #NetflixOriginalIndia #netflixindia #netflixoriginal
— Manav kaul (@Manavkaul19) January 21, 2019
#Soni is such an insightful, meditative even, take on gender without once having to explicitly mention the gender politics of this country. No finger wagging, no manipulation, and no feministic monolgues.
— Keerthana. (@nebulochaoticaf) January 23, 2019
#Soni has a total of only 42 shots. 42. Some films have that many shots in one scene! A 90 minute film that not only holds your attention but also blows your mind away with only 42 shots can mean only one thing. Solid writing! Hats off!
— Charukesh Sekar (@CharukeshSekar) February 1, 2019
But in your barrage of hate and culturally passed on abuse, you forget to hear the other side of the story.
What it means to be a policeman. In case of #soni what it means to be a policewoman in a city like Delhi. Kudos to the entire team of the film and thanks @NetflixIndia
— shashank rawat (@Just_Shashank) January 23, 2019
Like Govind Nihalani’s ARDH SATYA captured the half-truths of Bombay cops of the 80s referencing Dilip Chitre’s poetry, SONI captures the sampoorn-satya of women in present-day Delhi, referencing a beautiful & revolutionary Amrita Pritam story. Literary references in cinema #ftw.
— वरुण (@varungrover) January 19, 2019
#Soni, unlike #Simmba, doesn’t lie to women about how lonely they are in their fight. No male is a protector. Kavita-Soni relationship is great parallel to Shafi Inamdar-Om Puri from #ArdhSatya. I have never seen a cop drama with female officers, have you? It’s genre bending.
— Atul Sabharwal (@sabharwalatul) January 19, 2019
oh man i think it’ll take me a while to get out of @NetflixIndia‘s #Soni zone or may be I just don’t want to get out of it.What a movie?!I think after really long a movie has hit me so hard with its sheer genuineness. It just doesn’t try hard or manipulate you, and that’s a Win.
— Vaishnavi (@LinesAreBlurred) January 23, 2019
#Soni makes you introspect on how accustomed we as a society have become to violence against women. What sucked me in the narrative is the way its been shot – a great ode to #AsgharFarhadi style of filmmaking. Don’t miss this gem, we don’t find them very often. @sonithefilm
— Ankit (@tweet_to_ankit) January 27, 2019
Most movies trying to give a female narrative fail to do justice. Either the portrayal is too over-the-top, desperate to prove a point or it’s too grim, desperate to garner sympathy. This country definitely needs more uninhibited female narratives and #Soni just does that.
— P101 (@Punxster101) January 23, 2019
Thank you #IvanAyr for @sonithefilm. @NetflixIndia, well done! @salonibatra_29, @GeetikaVidya, your expressions did as much as a bunch of revolutionary writing could. Wish you very well.
Team #Soni, you got noiseless reality (with normalised evils) to drive a point too many.
— انورادھا Anuradha XYZ @ Dehaat India (@anuradhaxyz) January 24, 2019