'System' Movie Review: Sonakshi Sinha and Jyotika’s legal drama on Prime Video shows women too can be heroes

Language: Hindi

Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Jyotika, Ashutosh Gowariker

Rating: 3 and half (out of 5)

Though mildly predictable, Prime Video’s ‘Sytem’ surprises you. Directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari and produced by Pammi Baweja, Harman Baweja, and Smitha Baliga, the movie is a thrilling legal drama that promises to keep you engrossed at every turn. The film has the power to get into your head. The film shows clear demarcation between the privileged and underprivileged when it comes to influencing legal proceedings.

The story focusses on a privileged prosecutor who teams up with a humble stenographer to uncover buried injustices, forcing a choice between power and justice. Though privileged Neha Rajvansh (Sonakshi Sinha).takes the ethical route. Sytem does a great job in telling a solid story on what happens with court procedings and judgements without getting preachy.

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A still from System

The Prime Original movie System is a high-stakes legal drama that follows the unlikely connection between Neha Rajvansh (Sonakshi Sinha), a public prosecutor, and Sarika Rawat (Jyotika), a courtroom stenographer who comes from a humble background. Despite both of them coming from distinctly different social strata of society, they team up to fight for justice and truth even if it means going up against the most powerful.

Neha Rajvansh (Sonakshi Sinha) comes from a well-to-do family of lawyers. On the other hand, Sarika Rawat (Jyotika) comes from an extremely humble middle-class family where she is the only breadwinner. Her husband is in a wheelchair, and she is a doting mother to an extremely bright teenage girl. Sarika’s only aim is to educate her daughter. There is another twist and motive to her life too, which we get to know right at the end of the movie and that I am not going to disclose here.

A still from System

Prime Video’s System is a high-stake drama and the story is compelling and each character in the film has a backstory. The movie begins where a man is shown imprisoned for a crime he hasn’t committed. He commits suicide, but then the scene suddenly shifts to Neha Rajvansh (Sonakshi Sinha) getting ready for her first case. Her father, played by Ashutosh Gowariker, but he refuses to spoon-feed her. Neha very clearly says that she is an example of ‘reverse nepotism’. Her father believes that things that you get very easily in life, don’t last for long. He very clearly says that his daughter, Neha Rajvansh (Sonakshi Sinha) can join his company only after she wins 10 cases.

System is inventive, and the storytelling is consistent. The movie is unpreachy and teaches you to avoid being judgmental. The film shows that it’s absolutely acceptable to be vulnerable and grey because no human being can be completely black or completely white. Ethics too varies from person to person and society to society. When justice is not readily available, one must seek a more unconventional approach to obtain it.

Jyotika’s performance was brilliant, and the character too was layered; it is she who stole the show. There is a kind of mystery around her, and that restrained emotion is to die for. Her role is in fact brilliantly written. There are times when the writings of the other characters, especially Ashutosh Gowariker, do get a little limp, but Jyotika's role is the best and the most well-written.

The best thing about Prime Video's System is that once you start connecting the dots, you realise that each scene from the very beginning is related. So, don’t give this film a miss because it’s worth every bit of your time, and don't binge-watch; otherwise, it might get very difficult for you to connect the dots.

WATCH the trailer of System here: