If found guilty, they face up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.Īn enhancement to the charge that could have increased the maximum sentence by five years was dropped by New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies this week.īaldwin, 64, has repeatedly said he was told by the crew that the gun was not loaded. Prosecutors often level alternative charges because it increases the likelihood of a conviction, giving a jury greater scope to return a guilty verdict. Go watch Pink again.The US actor had been expected to make his first court appearance on Friday, but made an administrative filing on Thursday waiving that right and entering his plea.īoth Baldwin - a co-producer and the lead actor - and the film's armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was responsible for the weapon on set, face two alternative counts of voluntary manslaughter. One extra star, just for the subject matter. With the film’s director, writers and dialogue writer all being women, Guilty could have been that film that talked to us. Just a polite shout out to the writers, not every kid from the north east in DU is called Tashi.Īs we now inhabit offices where many accused of the #metoo movement are back and we as a society are trying to deal with it all, Guilty had an opportunity to take forward the conversation but this is certainly no Pink. But in the end, the big melodramatic moment, which takes place on a stage, is everything Karan Johar, sans the Manish Malhotra lehengas and lavish sets. Here, the ‘youngsters’ are all smoking weed, getting sloshed, and talking in swear words that would not look out of place in an Anurag Kashyap film. Kiara Advani is reduced to the ‘tortured-artistic-creative’ types, and Tanu Sharma, in her ill-fitting clothes is a poor caricature of the small- town-girl with big dreams.Īlso, Dharmatic, this alter ego of Dharma, inhabits a world, where they are trying hard to counter the ‘it’s all about loving your parents’ brief of the parent company. Not once do we feel any empathy for any of the characters. We get that the writers wished to reflect that strong, independent, expressive women shouldn’t be slut-shamed and that a no is a no but the way they bumble their way through it leaves much to be desired. But it’s the other infractions and the rather insipid treatment that lets you down. Rather a mainstream film on the given matter, in a post #metoo world would have helped take the conversation forward. The problem with Guilty is not the subject matter or the premise. On a fateful Valentine’s day celebration, things happen and later at a time when the #metoo movement is at its peak, a tweet by Tanu accuses VJ of rape. But as she is a ‘scholarship kid’ and doesn’t fit into the elite, English-medium wala trope, almost everyone in college keeps her at a distance. Enter Tanu Sharma from Dhanbad, whose chosen pronoun for herself is hum, who is unabashed about her desires – which includes VJ – and not apologetic about the attention she seeks. His girlfriend Nanki (Kiara Advani), in her black nail polish-tattooed-boyfriend jeans-wearing-Virginia-Wolf -goth glory, is the songwriter for the band. Set in an elite Delhi University college, the story is told through the shenanigans of a college band Doobydo, whose lead vocalist is VJ, son of an imminent politician. Dharmatic presents Guilty, a two-hour film which speaks about rape, consent, privilege, slut-shaming, power dynamics, the he-said, she-said diatribe, etc. This sounds like the perfect launch pad for Dharmatic, the supposed alter ego of Dharma Productions, under the aegis of Karan Johar. A story about the college heart throb being accused of rape by a not-so-popular girl, in the shadow of the recent #metoo movement.
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