‘Important Men’ is a Chronicle of Upper Caste Privilege and One Man’s Subversion
Ayyan Mani (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a clerk at a premier research institute, has the ringside view of an elite Indian circus. Its chief participants, Brahmins — beneficiaries of the country’s caste divide — irk Ayyan, a Dalit. Every day at work feels like a brutal history lesson, a reminder of...