The fact that Arvind Swamy and young Himanshu Sharma play the father and son with pitch-perfect anguish, makes the director’s job so much easier.įor most of the 90-minute soul-searching excursion, the director gives his characters room to breathe easily. We are persuaded to enter their troubled, torn world with no room for moral evaluations. His characters do what they do, are what they are. The director refrains from throwing judgement values in our somewhat shocked faces. Read: I don’t expect people to know my name, says Arvind Swamy When the shocking life-changing revelation happens, all hell breaks loose. He takes off on a journey, both introspective and literal, with his teenaged son Shivum. The judiciously cast Arvind Swamy boldly goes where no Bollywood actor would venture. It’s the story of a happy successful seemingly functional family falling apart when the patriarch Nitin Swaminathan decides to come out of the closet. This road movie, shot in scenic mountainous spots in and around Mussourie, opens a can of worms. It’s impossible to imagine a debutant director going so far down the road of unorthodox sexuality when he knows the pitfalls ahead. Tanuj Bhramar has pushed the envelope out of the closet as far as possible. It takes a whole lot of guts to make a film on alternate sexuality in India, specially when you are a first-time director. Cast: Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma, Ekavali Khanna, Aman Uppal, Bhavika Bhasin
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