A couple moves to the big city and has to deal with culture shock, far away relatives, nosey landlord and other issues people deal with.
I am kind of torn about this film. Hands down one of the best films playing New Directors New Films, I'm at a loss as to why the film was picked up by the festival to screen. It's so much more alive than most of the other films playing at the festival. Its one of the few films that feels as though its about real people and not an artists idea of them. Why did they choose it?
At the same time the film itself is very much like other films about people coming to live in the big city. It is exactlyly like any number of inde American films I run across every year.. To be certain it is much better than most of those entirely by the number films, but at the same time other than the setting there is little to truly set this apart from the crowd.
Quibbles aside there is enough here to say director Sanju Surendran has a great deal of talent, and I would like to see what comes next.
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