Sleeping Partner (film)

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Sleeping Partner
Directed byPunarvasu Naik
Written byCharudutt Acharya
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAkash Agarwal
Edited byUnnikrishnan Prabhakaran
Music byRohan-Vinayak
Production
company
Distributed by Flipkart Video
Release date
  • 19 February 2020 (2020-02-19)
Running time
22 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Sleeping Partner is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language drama film that sheds light on domestic violence and marital rape. [1] Starring Divya Dutta and Sanjay Kapoor, [2] [3] [4] [5] this film is a Flipkart Video Original and part of an anthology of seven short films titled Zindagi inShort produced by Guneet Monga of Sikhya Entertainment. The film was released on 19 February 2020. [6] [7]

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Reception

Pratishruti Ganguly of Firstpost gave a mixed review stating "Despite the superb acting though, one may find Sleeping Partner a tad too melodramatic and Bollywood-ised, especially in the end." [8] In contrast, Ruchi Kaushal of Hindustan Times and Nandini Ramanath of Scroll.in gave a positive note and also praised Divya Dutta's characterisation, with the former stating that "It’s enough to leave you impressed not just with Divya’s character arc but also how a woman finds courage inside herself." [9] and the latter wrote "The feminist lite treatment ensures a conclusion that nobody saw coming. Yet, Dutta is affecting as the bruised wife, and Sanjay Kapoor is turning out to be a fine cameo artist in small but well-written parts." [10] Rahul Desai of Film Companion noted "The film subverts the extramarital template and pitches a woman against the general arrogance of mankind: a tightrope walk that doesn’t fall prey to the woke, kitchen-sink-brand feminism expected from storytellers these days." [11]

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