There was a joke doing the rounds that if Batman was based out of Mumbai, he would spend half the night fighting traffic.

Because, you know, this is India and things move at a certain pace.

Even if it's an open-and-shut case taken to court.

Salman Khan was involved in a hit-and-run case in 2002. The case is still being heard in court thirteen years later. And how the narratives have changed.

Time changes things. It blurs out detail.

There's a difference between reading and hearing about the strange ways of the law and actually being in court. While it is easy to poke fun of archaic laws and blame the judiciary, it takes some amount of sensitivity and understanding of the larger picture to craft a critique of the sacred cow without being charged for contempt.

Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a character study of this beast. By nature, it takes its time. By nature, it plays by the book, no matter how long ago it was written. By nature, laws are interpreted with socio-cultural prejudices of all characters involved.

Hence, the young filmmaker takes his time to make you feel that long-drawn nature of mundane court proceedings. This understated anti-thesis to courtroom (devoid of) drama, borrows its narrative style from the meandering ways of the Court and investigates The Curious Case of Our Never-ending Trials by examining all the characters involved.