In No One Killed Jessica, two women fight to prove that title is a lie

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: It’s Siblings Week at The A.V. Club, so we’re recommending movies about sisters.
No One Killed Jessica (2011)
The Bollywood thriller No One Killed Jessica is a serious movie about an important subject, the real-life murder of model Jessica Lal and the years-long legal proceedings that ensued and eventually made the case a nationwide cause célèbre that raised awareness of both systemic corruption and women’s rights. Director Raj Kumar Gupta films the story largely in a style that, for better and worse, can best be summed up as “awards season verité.” Focusing on the better, there is one wry scene, an exception to the film’s style as a whole and one straight out of a masala romance, when the film’s two protagonists—the murder victim’s sister Sabrina (Vidya Balan), and Meera (Rani Mukerji), the TV journalist who eventually takes up her cause—meet in a manner much like lovers, down to the exact camera angles and music cues that would have heralded such a moment.