Director Madhureeta Anand’s Kajarya belongs in the horror genre. Not horror of the make-believe, fantasy kind but horror rooted in the reality of the times. The film with a central theme of female foeticide fittingly opens with an ominous soundtrack that sets the tone for the next two hours. Set in a Haryana village, Kajarya (Meenu Hooda) is a widow and an ‘outcaste’ of sorts who is projected by her lover-friend and local goon, Banwaari (Kuldeep Ruhil) as an avatar of Goddess Kali, believed to possess the ‘divine’ powers that bestow sons on families hankering for them. Besides ‘blessing’ the couples, Kajarya, in an alcohol-opium stupor is made to kill unwanted baby girls too. Soon arrives a rookie journalist Meera Sharma (Riddhima Sud) from Delhi, in search of a story. In her eagerness to make it big, Sharma takes back an under-nuanced story of the killings, and in the pursuit of hitting the front pages of her newspaper and career progression, breaks her promise to Kajarya of keeping her identity under wraps in return for a tell-all. What follows is a tumultuous churning in both the women’s lives.

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