Allegedly based on a true incident reported on page 7 of a local newspaper, the film was a scathing satire on the
corruption in the judicial system and the victimization of the underprivileged by the able and the powerful.
Aakrosh forms a part of the series of works, based around explorations in violence, written by noted playwright
Vijay Tendulkar, who had earlier written
Shyam Benegal's
Nishant (1974) and went on to write Govind Nihalani's next surprise breakaway hit,
Ardh Satya (1983). Here the victim is shown so traumatized by excessive oppression and violation of his humanity, that he does not utter a single word almost for the length of the film and only bears a stunned look, though later he uses the same violence as a tool to express his own sense of violation and rage. At the end of the film we hear the victim's voice for the second time (the first is in a flashback, as he vainly attempts to rescue his wife), which is a device similar to
Andrei Tarkovsky's showing of the icons in brilliant color at the end of his three-hour black-and-white film
Andrei Rublev. == Cast ==