Anubhav Sinha, the filmmaker from India who has made his mark as one of Hindi cinema's most unflinching social critics, has focused on the nation's sexual violence epidemic with his latest courtroom drama, "Assi." The film, which takes its title from the Hindi word for 80—a reference to the roughly 80 rapes reported in India each day—centres on Parima, a schoolteacher and mother found near a railway track after 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 deliberately sidesteps individual...