Crossing Bridges

A humble and pleasant tale of discovering and holding to your roots. The micro-budget film was shot on a 5D Canon camera and is in Shertukpen dialect of Arunachal Pradesh. The village premises, the characters are realistic. The transformation of Tashi, the main character, from a restless, eager to rush back to the city man to a villager rediscovering his roots is endearing. Do watch, if you love idyllic life, are attached to your native place and prefer no-nonsense, bland movies.

What an excellent movie, but it is sad that mainstream Indian Audience even don't know about this masterpiece. The film is almost poetic and the scenes of nature will mesmerize you. The story of a man conflicted between modernity and roots. A must watch for everyone, and people should watch this film to know more about the wonderful cultures and people of the North Eastern India.

We absolutely enjoyed it very much! I just couldn't believe that a film out of India does not have the formulaic annoying totally irrelevant dancing and singing we usually saw from the crappy Bollywood. This film is so poetically beautiful. All the actors in this film are so natural, they are telling you a story without too much stuffed materials in it, the storyline is straightforward simple, actually not too much to tell, the dialog is minimal. It only shows you another kind of life and living in the high mountain villages. people live there are almost away from everything, yet they are peaceful and accept what they are facing about day after day. The simple lifestyle is not what the city people could imagine. What we have seen is a lifestyle without stress, anxiety, greed, even hope. The life in the high mountains is a life that just moves on, those people embrace their destiny in a simple-minded way.

We saw the guy gradually transformed himself and slowly got his root back. The transformation was so subtle and natural. The mountains, the scenery, the people around him, gradually gave him a peaceful mind, allowed him to have a real sense of belonging finally. It seems that by watching this film, it also gave you some sort of peacefulness of your soul, making you even envy him to have such opportunity to find himself back home.

This is a great film without any pretentiousness and falsehood. A film just showed you a very simple line from A to B. It showed you that there are so many bridges you have wrongly and mistakenly crossed over, and you indeed need some luck and guts to go back by crossing them with determination.

This is a brilliant film. I never even heard the name of the film, and so I was really startled, once I started watching it. For me it never became a 'home-coming' film as some people have commented on these user pages. All through this film meant a coming back to one's self. If Modi & Co had not made any reference to Old Hindu Scriptures equally vulgar, I would like to say, it seemed like the 'know thyself' journey as in Upanishad. After the film ended, I discovered that I was too trying to answer that extremely difficult question of the child -- why their own festivals are not mentioned there in their own books. The brilliance of the film resided in its not being judgmental -- not for a single moment, anywhere in the film. In Tashi's trying to know his 'self' he allowed both himself and us in knowing the reality -- not passing judgments about anything. (If any of you know anything about the director, I would really like to know, please post it here.)

Just to sum it up. Stillness. This movie has the unspeakable stillness that we experience very rarely. Watching it might even change your perspective of life. The actors are natural. Special mention of the camera department and Background score. Awesome.