Photograph. (12A.)
Directed by Ritesh Batra.
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farrukh Jaffar, Sachin Khedekar, Denzil Smith and Brinda Trivedi. Subtitled. 109 mins.
Photograph is a romcom about a Mumbai couple who seem unsure if they want to be in a romcom. The set up is all kinds of Richard Curtis. He's poor/ she's middle class and studying to be an accountant. They meet when he takes her photograph at a monument and she becomes enamoured of the version of her she sees in it. To convince his domineering granny (Jaffar) who wants to marry him off they pose as a pretend couple. Everybody in the audience knows where we are going with this, but the couple on the screen refuse to move, stuck in a protracted wallflower standoff. Seriously, they make Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson look like Last Tango In Paris.
The latest film from the director of The Lunchbox is very pleasant. It often looks great, the performers are charming but a lot of the humour is lost in the subtitles and it's difficult to really care about a relationship where it hasn't been explained what the couple see in each other.
Directed by Ritesh Batra.
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farrukh Jaffar, Sachin Khedekar, Denzil Smith and Brinda Trivedi. Subtitled. 109 mins.
Photograph is a romcom about a Mumbai couple who seem unsure if they want to be in a romcom. The set up is all kinds of Richard Curtis. He's poor/ she's middle class and studying to be an accountant. They meet when he takes her photograph at a monument and she becomes enamoured of the version of her she sees in it. To convince his domineering granny (Jaffar) who wants to marry him off they pose as a pretend couple. Everybody in the audience knows where we are going with this, but the couple on the screen refuse to move, stuck in a protracted wallflower standoff. Seriously, they make Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson look like Last Tango In Paris.
The latest film from the director of The Lunchbox is very pleasant. It often looks great, the performers are charming but a lot of the humour is lost in the subtitles and it's difficult to really care about a relationship where it hasn't been explained what the couple see in each other.
