Undertrial (2007)

Undertrial is a 2007 Hindi drama that gave Rajpal Yadav, better known as a comedian, a serious leading role. He plays an ordinary man who is arrested and held as an undertrial prisoner, waiting for justice that never seems to come while his family struggles outside. Kader Khan appears in a supporting role. The film takes aim at the delays and indifference of the legal system and the way the poor can be swallowed by it, and it rests on Rajpal Yadav's dramatic performance. It is one of a small group of films from the 2000s in which he played against his comic image.