Accused Movie Review | Anupama Chopra | THR India

In her review for The Hollywood Reporter India, Anupama Chopra examines *Accused*, a Netflix film directed by Anubhuti Kashyap and starring Konkona Sen Sharma and Pratibha Rannta. Anupama notes that the Dharma Productions film takes a bold step by centering its story on a same-sex married couple — Geetika, a powerful gynecologist played by Konkona, and Meera, a softer, younger doctor played by Pratibha — whose relationship fractures when Geetika is accused of sexual harassment. She appreciates that the film normalizes the relationship from the first frame and that Konkona's character is written as unapologetically ambitious and morally ambiguous.

However, Anupama finds that the courage of the premise is undermined by its execution. She argues that the writers, Sima Agarwal and Yash Keswani, and director Anubhuti defang the material by making it too palatable — the supporting characters are cardboard cutouts, the plot grows increasingly harebrained, and the film consistently shies away from real discomfort. Even the usually brilliant Konkona is reduced to a one-note performance. Anupama compares the film unfavorably to Todd Field's Tár*, starring Cate Blanchett, as a far more unsettling exploration of similar themes, and ultimately calls *Accused a let-down.