SHERNI is the story of a tough forest officer intending to capture a tigress that has caused havoc in a region. Vidya Vincent (Vidya Balan) has joined as the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) in the Bijaspur Forest Division. Her husband Pawan (Mukul Chadda) is away in Mumbai while she resides alone in a residence allotted by the Forest Department. She is not happy with the promotions and salary hikes that she has received in the last 9 years and wants to quit.

In the jungles of Madhya Pradesh rests two Shernis, one is addressed as T12, who is also known as the man-hunter & the other is Vidya (Vidya Balan). She is posted as the area's new Divisional Forest Officer. A reserved but confident Vidya is assigned the case to find the movements of T12 to prevent her from hunting down humans.

A Lion is called Sher or Sinh in Hindi. A Tiger is known as Baagh. So a Tigress should be Baaghin. Amit Masurkar perhaps chose to ignore the correct usage, as Sherni sounds more dramatic. Tiger conservation is a real concern in our country. Despite the initial success of Project Tiger, the population of the animal seems to be dwindling. Man-animal conflict is at an all-time high because of the dwindling of forests.

In 'Newton' (2017), Amit Masurkar brought the rights of people to vote on-screen even in the remotest areas of the country. While 'Sherni', showed the importance of man and wild co-existing in the same ecosystem. There's always one person who fights for the rights of the conservation of the wild by even being a silent warrior. That's Vidya Balan in 'Sherni' who doesn't lose her calm or metaphorically roar in this film.

Amit V Masurkar's Newton left critics and audiences impressed as it explored the electoral process in India in a humorous but impactful manner. It was a brilliant follow-up for the filmmaker after the dark comedy, Sulemani Keeda. Talking about actress Vidya Balan, she is known for her powerful performances since The Dirty Picture (2011). The very fact that these two have come together makes Sherni an exciting proposition for cinema lovers.

Early on in Sherni, officials and locals clash over one's solution is another's struggle of an ongoing village crisis. There's a man-eating tiger on the loose and her appetite is wreaking havoc on a region whose layout of adjacently arranged fields and forests makes it difficult for man and beast to peacefully coexist.

The upright government official who wages battles without honour or reward is back in Newton director Amit Masurkar's new movie. Sherni actually has two tigresses - one a maneater who is the object of a hysterical hunt, and the other the woman who is leading the hunt. Vidya Balan is Vidya Vincent, a divisional forest department officer who runs into a challenge just weeks into her new posting.

What a roar! After a really long wait, a film which actually keeps you at the edge of your seats is here - SHERNI. Well, quite literally, the title comfortably is synonymous with lead actress Vidya Balan leading the pack. Director Amit Masurkar of Newton once again proved his finesse and understanding of the script.

The man vs. animal conflict can be narrated in several ways. The deep, dark jungle can be romanticised and turned into a battlefield for a heroic tale of a saviour standing against the many stakeholders who threaten to tilt the balance of the fragile ecosystem. Or it can be viewed through a realistic lens that appears deceptively simple, like director Amit Masurkar does in Sherni.

Amit Masurkar walks into the woods and comes back with a good-to-great movie. That's just how it works. On the way, he encounters radical-minded ruffians and bumbling 'babus'. But a single scene in his films has more passion than the entire recent output of certain chiselled Bollywood heroes combined.

Like the displaced tigress of the title, the human protagonist of Sherni, a just transferred divisional forest officer, finds herself trapped. Not that she isn't up to the task. However, in an alien, dead-end, male-dominated environment, being good at one's job simply isn't enough if you are a woman.

"If you pass through the jungle 100 times, you may spot a tiger once but the tiger will have seen you 99 times," a forest official is told early in this film. Nature is eternally poised to defend itself against human invasion with ample reasons, some of which are explored in engrossing detail in producer-writer-director Amit Masurkar's Sherni (The Tigress). With a story and screenplay by Aastha Tiku, and dialogues by Masurkar and Yashasvi Mishra, Sherni is set in the wilds of Madhya Pradesh in the midst of simultaneous human-animal conflict and internal conflict in the Homo sapiens species between conservationists and predators.

Vidya Vincent (Vidya Balan), a committed forest officer, hasn't got a promotion in nine years, and after six years of a desk profile, her new position in the forests of Bijaspur comes with its set of unique challenges. Over a video chat, when she casually hints to her husband, Pawan (Mukul Chaddha) that she feels stagnant with no growth and might resign after she snags that coveted promotion, he eggs her to stay on. Mostly because he isn't sure how long he can hold on to his job in Mumbai.

Sherni opens to a panoramic view of the forest. You know you have landed in the middle of dense, raw danger. So does Vidya Balan, who plays Divisional Forest Officer Vidya Vincent, in the film. Vidya is here to resolve human-animal conflicts - stuff we read about in the newspapers every day. But her battles go beyond just that. She has to find her own footing as a woman in a man's world.

I Bet. After watching Sherni, you will not see Tigers with that same 'eye' again. Opening with a sequence of people from the forest department in Madhya Pradesh making arrangements to catch a Tiger on prowl who is believed to have crossed the limits and entered the village occupied by humans. Vidya Vincet (Vidya Balan) is the newly appointed upright forest officer in charge of the situation.