Anubhav Sinha, the filmmaker from India who has made his mark as one of Hindi cinema's most unflinching social critics, has turned his lens to the nation's rape crisis with his latest courtroom drama, "Assi." The film, which takes its title from the Hindi word for 80—a allusion to the roughly 80 rapes reported in India each day—centres on Parima, a mother and schoolteacher discovered near a railway track following a gang rape, whose case winds through Delhi's courts. Starring Taapsee Pannu as a lawyer, Kani Kusruti as the survivor, and Revathy as the sitting judge, the film intentionally avoids...