Talvar is a 2015 Bollywood movie written by Vishal Bharadwaj and directed by Meghna Gulzar. The film is based on the 2008 Noida double murder case, in which a teenage girl and her family servant were found murdered, and her parents were convicted for the murders.
Talvar presents three contradictory accounts of the case, which variously portray the parents as guilty or innocent.
The style of the story-telling is similar to that of an epic 1950 Japanese movie. However, this storytelling style is designed to show the parents in sympathetic light, is what multiple reviewers say.
What is this style?
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Rashomon (by Akira Kurosawa)The film is known for a plot device that involves various characters providing alternative, self-serving and contradictory versions of the same incident.