Paatra

His name was Kanaiyalal Yadav. But did he live like Kanaiya or Sudama? A story of a master artist, art teacher at C N Arts College who lived most of his life in a slum area of Ahmedabad, in a room with mud walls and leaky roof. He would rather starve than sell his paintings. But one rainy night, to protect his family from rainwaters he used all of his paintings to cover that leaky roof. Biopic of that fairly unknown yet a great artist. Somewhat flaccid sound design. Good performances by Dinesh Lamba as the protagonist and Prinal Oberoi. Script writing and editing could have been better. Overall it is still a good film as it tugs at your heartstrings. A tearjerker.