I have finally found an Indian director who makes films like the Iranians do. Ritesh Batra, whose Lunch Box is a favourite. He comes back to Hindi films with another exquisite offering. It is everything that a Hindi potboiler is not. It is meaningful, short on melodrama, and conveys things through what is not spoken.
If only more films were this good! Nawazuddin Siddiqui (also a favourite), and Sanya Malhotra and the lady who plays his Dadi (Farrukh Jaffer), have acted brilliantly, under his direction. Almost every scene is full of layered meaning, and the words are few, but convey a lot.
The Campa Cola angle, the ghost, the maid-servant, the taxi driver from U.P. are all important cogs in the wheel of the story, and the open ending is becoming a hallmark of Ritesh's films- another thing that Hindi film directors usually can't handle! Power to his ilk.
If only more films were this good! Nawazuddin Siddiqui (also a favourite), and Sanya Malhotra and the lady who plays his Dadi (Farrukh Jaffer), have acted brilliantly, under his direction. Almost every scene is full of layered meaning, and the words are few, but convey a lot.
The Campa Cola angle, the ghost, the maid-servant, the taxi driver from U.P. are all important cogs in the wheel of the story, and the open ending is becoming a hallmark of Ritesh's films- another thing that Hindi film directors usually can't handle! Power to his ilk.
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