Shwas
A marathi film. India's official entry to the oscars this year. I happened to stumble upon an asian-american theater on 59th st. Serendipitious really. It's a nice theater. Just opened. Shows a new movie 3 shows every day for a week. Lot of good Indian films.
I loved this movie. Shwas is a poignant potrayal of a young boy and his grandfather, who needs to have surgery to save his life - but will lose his vision. The grandfather struggles to bring himself and his family to accept that. And then struggles to break it to the kid. Eventually, it's a hopeful story about the strength of the human will. What I really liked was that it was not overly melodramatic, yet tugged at the heartstrings. Many a moist eye left the theater (there were very few in the theater to begin with, which brings me to the issue of how badly promoted the theater and the movie is - so far!).
We had a Q&A with the director (Sandeep Sawant) after the movie. Good stuff. On a shoestring budget.
I urge you all to go watch it - and tell your friends. Support this movie.
Rating: 5/5
I loved this movie. Shwas is a poignant potrayal of a young boy and his grandfather, who needs to have surgery to save his life - but will lose his vision. The grandfather struggles to bring himself and his family to accept that. And then struggles to break it to the kid. Eventually, it's a hopeful story about the strength of the human will. What I really liked was that it was not overly melodramatic, yet tugged at the heartstrings. Many a moist eye left the theater (there were very few in the theater to begin with, which brings me to the issue of how badly promoted the theater and the movie is - so far!).
We had a Q&A with the director (Sandeep Sawant) after the movie. Good stuff. On a shoestring budget.
I urge you all to go watch it - and tell your friends. Support this movie.
Rating: 5/5
posted by Harish at 10:30
3 Comments:
A wonderful movie - Born Into Brothels, running @ The Film Forum on W Houston (http://www.filmforum.com/films/born.htm) - highly, HIGHLY recommend it! Director present tomorrow (12/29) for Q&A (I think..). Nominated for Golden Globes against Farenheit 9/11. All the way across the globe and watching such amazing movies/documentaries about India, when one may not have gotten to see 'em in Blore..hmm..
- ..and_like_that_he_disappears!
hey :)
i agree with shwas! very well done... extremely sensitive... i give my 2 thumbs up for this meself! :)
p.s. - nice blog u have... extremely informative!
p.p.s - this is sunayana from orkut :) part of that sportswriting comm *tadaa* hope the bell rings now hehe
Suppu: Yes.. watch.
Vijay: Missed Born into Brothels. Will watch it when it comes out somewhere else.
Sunayana: Yes, i do remember you. Don't log onto Orkut all that often these days. But I hope you'll be a repeat visitor to this blog. Like your blog too.
Cheers.
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