Film review: UNINDIAN, from ‘Built For Speed’

There have been some bizarre casting choices in movies over the years, John Wayne as Mongol Warlord Genghis Khan in The Conqueror or Marlon Brando as a Japanese man in Tea House of the August Moon. It is unlikely, though, that we will ever see anything as jaw-droppingly weird as the casting of former Watergate burglar and FBI spook, G.

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Film review: SIDDHARTH, from Built For Speed

Siddharth is a visually remarkable but depressing Indian drama that examines issues of identity self-worth, masculinity and family breakdown in a country undergoing tumultuous change. The film centres on Delhi father and zip repairer or ‘chain walla’ Mahendra (Rajesh Tailang) who lives on the edge of poverty with his wife Suman (Tannishtha Chatterjee), his son Siddharth or siddhu as he

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