Photograph

A story that starts with a photograph.....and is almost as still life as a photograph is.

Excruciatingly slow moving.......yet captivating. It does what a still life does.....makes you pause ...makes you look beneath the surface, to touch underlying emotions that will flitter for a second, in the eyes, in that little gesture.....hardly reach the lips. 

One of those films that speaks more through it's silences.

An unusual love story between a street photographer and a star student. A man of routine, a girl who has not lived her own, opposing social realms. And through those differences grows that mysterious bond. Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra were brilliant, and so were the support cast.

A third star is Mumbai, through some brilliant cinematography. It was that first shot of Mumbai, that caught my attention and then had me glued.

It's a film by Ritesh Batra of the lunch box fame. It's starts with a whisper, gives you loads of possibility and then leaves you to figure out how the story goes.....

I'd recommend...quite strongly in fact.