Cast: Divya Dutta, Ashutosh Rana, Dadhi Pandey, Tinu Anand, Rajit Kapoor, Kittu Gidwani, Yashpal Sharma, Kunika, Saurabh Dubey, Ashish Kapoor
DVD Features: Anamorphic Widescreen,  DTS®, Dolby Digital ® 5.1  Surround, English Subtitles, NTSC All Region
Director:  Sushen Bhatnagar

Based on a real life political turmoil that had shook the nation a few years back when a top politician was embroiled in a telecom scam and a young female journalist was murdered, 'Monica' doesn't take names but exposes the nexus between politicians (Ashutosh Rana), media (Divya Dutta, Tinnu Anand), power brokers (Dadhi Pandey) and industrialists (Kittu Gidwani). In fact so smart has been this depiction that despite a similar theme being exposed in dozens of other films, the going-ons in 'Monica' stay on to be top notch which keep you glued on to the screen. To add to this, there is a brilliant culmination around this nexus when it is depicted on a black board and a piece of chalk by a competent lawyer (Yashpal Sharma) who wants to expose the reason behind the murder at all cost.

To keep the narrative engrossing, most of the first half of the film is set as a court room drama. The film opens with the murder of Monica and then goes into a flashback mode around what could possibly have happened. This is where director Sushen Bhatnagar plays a smart game where he brings in elements of facts and fiction and intersperses layers of assumptions/perceptions into it to come up with a cohesive narrative.

Monica plays all the odd roles likes of a wife of an alcoholic, a victim of child abuse, mother of an illegitimate child, a sleeping partner of a big politician and also an associate of a lady industrialist. Monica marries Raj Jaitley played by Rajit Kapoor for love, but leaves no stone unturned to reach power. She entices Aseem Ray played by Tinnu Anand, seduces Pamela Garewal played by Kittu Gidwani and surrenders to Chandrakant Pandit played by Ashutosh Rana for acquiring power.