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Nawazuddin Siddiqui In A Still From Photograph(Photo Credit –Prime Video)

In his prolific acting career spanning more than 25 years, the immensely talented Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has delivered many outstanding performances. Some of his notable roles include Gangs of Wasseypur, Badlapur, The Lunchbox, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Raat Akeli Hai, and a memorable appearance in Kahaani. But one performance delivered by the National Film Award-winning actor might not have gained the recognition it deserved. It is a lesser-known film helmed by Ritesh Batra, the director of the widely acclaimed film The Lunchbox.

If you still haven’t guessed the film’s name, we are talking about the 2019 romantic drama ‘Photograph.’ Read on to know more about the underappreciated film and where you can stream it on Ott.

Photograph – Plot & Cast

Directed by Ritesh Batra, the film’s underlying premise revolves around a Mumbai-based struggling street photographer, Rafi (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui...

Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa review: A cut above that should be seen, savoured and thoughtfully appreciated.

Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa review is here. English title (Sniffer) this 2013 Hindi dark comedy by the master filmmaker Buddhadev Dasgupta is finally streaming on Eros Now from November 20, 2020.

Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui along with Ananya Chatterjee and Pankaj Tripathi, the movie premiered on 17 October 2013 at the BFI London Film Festival.

Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa review

The poetic genius of Buddhadev Dasgupta’s storytelling and the mastery of emotions on screen by Nawazuddin Siddiqui results in a cinema that should be seen, savoured and thoughtfully appreciated. The rare sangam (meeting point) of a renowned filmmaker Buddhadev Dasgupta who has his own universal language of cinema and an actor with refined nuances Nawazuddin Siddiqui create an exquisitely beautiful and beguilingly poetic chronicle of life, people, places, spaces, loneliness, togetherness, longing, belonging, allusions, reality, faith, fate and more.

After his two attempts at the international glory with English-language movies “The Sense of an Ending” (2014) and “Our Souls at Night” (2017), Ritesh Batra is back to the territory he is most familiar with, the heart-warming Indian romance he created with his feature debut “The Lunchbox” (2013) which became a huge festival hit. His newest film, “Photograph” (2019) walks pretty much the same ground, content-, execution-, and festival distribution-wise. After its world premiere at Sundance last year and European premiere at Berlinale, it went on an extended, seemingly never-ending festival tour, parallel with the wide cinema release. Better late than never, could be said for its screening at this year’s online edition of Zagreb Film Festival and the review here.

Our man Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a forty-something street photographer whose pitch to the tourists at The Gateway of India is that the photograph is an all-senses memory experience: once they see the photograph,...

Shoojit Sircar’s films always have a certain charm of their own. Their distinctive subjects and idiosyncratic characters are a result of his writing companion- Juhi Chaturvedi, apart from his directorial decisions. What gave both of them such recognition was the 2012 release, “Vicky Donor”; which also won the National Award from that year. However, their collaborations have mostly dealt with people belonging to the middle-class from the social paradigm, who do not live in particularly grave financial conditions. Be it Piku, October, or Vicky Donor, the characters from their films were fairly privileged, largely sharing their emotional concerns. The characters in “Gulabo Sitabo”are hardly like that.

They need to hustle to fulfill their basic needs, which is what primarily interests in this new film. That is the first and foremost where the film becomes politically relevant, where the characters’ urgent needs and desires are more materialistic and less focused on their emotional being.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Rafi Photo: Joe D'Souza. © 2018 Tiwari's Ghost, LLC. All Rights Reserved

The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra - who now lives in New York and has recently directed English language films The Sense Of An Ending and Our Souls At Night - returns to his home country to use the bustling streets of Mumbai as the backdrop for Photograph, a romantic drama that crosses the class divide.

It stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui - who was also in The Lunchbox - as Rafi, a street photographer who strikes up an unlikely friendship with younger middle-class Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) he snaps one day. Using her photograph in a bid to convince his gran (Farrukh Jaffar) he has a girlfriend, he soon finds himself begging the younger woman to join his charade when his gran decides to visit. Soon, the faux romance begins to show signs of blossoming into the real thing.

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Meet-cutes are the hallmark of any romantic comedy, and although Ritesh Batra’s “Photograph” is more of a genial drama, its meet-cute is so essential to the plot, the film is named after it.

Rafi is a photographer working the tourists at the Gateway of India in Mumbai. He has a good line for roping in customers: “Years from now, when you look at this photograph, you’ll feel the sun on your face, this wind in your hair, and you’ll hear all these voices again, or it will all be gone. Gone forever.”

It’s this line that persuades Miloni (Sanya Malhotra), a student who’s been separated from her family, to allow Rafi to take her picture. He gives her the photograph, but before she can pay him, her family calls out to her and she runs off. Not a great start to a relationship, but he’s captivated nonetheless.

Two strangers from different classes meet in Mumbai by accident in Photograph, an Amazon Studios release opening theatrically May 17. Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) scrapes along by selling snapshots of tourists. The middle-class Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) has her life planned for her: a course in accounting, followed by an arranged marriage. Through a familiar screwball-comedy twist, she agrees to pose as Rafi’s betrothed when his grandmother Didi (Farrukh Jaffar) visits. Photograph is not strictly a comedy, but more a study of two deeply unhappy people taking tentative steps out of isolation. Writer and director Ritesh Batra explores his characters with an […]...

Two strangers from different classes meet in Mumbai by accident in Photograph, an Amazon Studios release opening theatrically May 17. Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) scrapes along by selling snapshots of tourists. The middle-class Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) has her life planned for her: a course in accounting, followed by an arranged marriage. Through a familiar screwball-comedy twist, she agrees to pose as Rafi’s betrothed when his grandmother Didi (Farrukh Jaffar) visits. Photograph is not strictly a comedy, but more a study of two deeply unhappy people taking tentative steps out of isolation. Writer and director Ritesh Batra explores his characters with an […]...

Ritesh Batra, director of the brilliant The Lunchbox and outstanding The Sense of an Ending will soon celebrate a new release. Photograph, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was the centerpiece to this year’s prestigious New York Indian Film Festival on May 10th will release theatrically on May 17th.

The film stars one of the finest actors in Indian cinema Nawazuddin Siddiqui, along with Sanya Malhotra (Badhaai Ho) in the main roles. It tells the story of a struggling Mumbai street photographer pressured to marry by his grandmother who convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit. How this transforms them is the crux of this softly told but wonderful film.

Have a look at the trailer

Photograph is a romance in a way, but it is more about an unspoken love and a glimpse into these characters and their feelings. You...

Photograph Amazon Studios Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ritesh Batra Screenwriter: Ritesh Batra Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqi, Sanya Malhotra, Vijay Raaz, Virendra Saxena, Farrukh Jaffar Screened at: Soho House, NYC, 5/1/19 Opens: May 17, 2019 If you’re disgusted by the present status of male-female relationships in the U.S., […]

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Here is the Photograph movie review. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra, the Indian-American - German coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama is written, co-produced and directed by The Lunch Box fame Ritesh Batra. The movie is hitting the theatres today - March 15 2019 after having its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and the European premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Is Ritesh Batra able to repeat the magic again in his come back to India? find out in Photograph movie review?

Immediate reaction when the movie ends

Ritesh Batra brings the audience and his lead characters in ?the mood for love? but fails in making them falling in love with Photograph.

The Story of Photograph

A struggling Mumbai street photographer Rafiq (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), is under pressure to get married by his grandmother played by Farrukh Jaffar. Rafiq convinces a stranger Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) to pose as his fianc?e during a family visit.

Exclusive: Amazon Studios will release Ritesh Batra’s romance feature Photograph stateside on May 17, the weekend before the Memorial Day stretch. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

The pic follows a struggling Mumbai street photographer who is pressured to wed by his grandmother. He convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit. Despite vast cultural differences, the pair develops a surprising connection that challenges their worldviews.

Photograph is screening as part of the official line-up at the Berlin International Film Festival. When the movie opens in May, it will be a limited release.

Pic stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farrukh Jaffar, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Vijay Raaz, Jim Sarbh, Akash Sinha and Saharsh Kumar Shukla. Producers are Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, Ritesh Batra, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen and Michel Merkt. EPs are Smriti Jain, Gaurav Mishra, Arun Rangachari and Vivek Rangachari.

Six years after the international crossover success of “The Lunchbox,” along comes “Photograph” to prove, whatever Thomas Wolfe may think, that you can go home again. Writer-director Ritesh Batra’s first Indian film since his debut feature has the same quiet streak of wistful sentimentality that made “The Lunchbox” so globally beloved — and, for that matter, the same softly-softly humanity found in his two subsequent English-language efforts, “The Sense of an Ending” and “Our Souls at Night.” Whether roaming the streets of Mumbai or the plains of Colorado, Batra’s filmmaking has remained markedly consistent in tone and texture: You’d be hard pressed to find anyone making nicer films in world cinema right now.

That’s an easy quality to underrate, as is the modest but careful craftsmanship and muted but honest performance style that makes “Photograph” — a film itself about the rewards of patiently building on first impressions — a winsome diversion.

Films by Zhang Yimou and André Téchiné will have world premieres in Berlin.

The final titles for the Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlianle Special sections have been announced.

The new competition additions are world premieres of Zhang Yimou’s One Second, André Téchiné’s Farewell To The Night, Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms, the German premiere of Vice, and the European premiere of Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace.

Of the new titles, Farewell To The Night, Alan Elliott’s Amazing Grace and Vice will play out of competition. 17 of the 23 films in the Competition section will be in contention...

Barefoot to Goa, directed by debutant director Praveen Morchhale, is a film that is mainly produced by a very lesser-known phenomenon in Bollywood as “crowd funding”. A movie produced by the crowd itself is slated to release for the crowd on the 10th of April 2015.

Barefoot To Goa is a story of two children who leave home to get back their ill and estranged grandmother, who lives alone in another town.

The cast of the movie includes Farrukh Jaffar (Peepli Live), Saara Nahar, Prakhar, Ajay Chourey, Purva Parag, Sharad Kuldeep Dubey and Sonu Chourasia.

The other credits are – Producer: Praveen Morchhale, Satyajeet Chourasia, Story, Screenplay and Direction: Praveen Morchhale, Cinematography: John Breakmas Kerketta, Music: Rohit Sharma, Jack Francis, Edit: Ujjwal Chandra, Sound: Bibek Basumatary.

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Barefoot to Goa (Director. Praveen Morchhale) is an exploration of family.

The above sentence may sound simple and clichéd even, but as this film conveys, the subject is far from simple and portrays the impossibility of families fitting into what may seem, the neat borders of cliché.

A brother and sister being brought up in bustling Mumbai decide to set out on the search for their Grandmother. Part of a normal nuclear family- an aloof nuclear family- the young siblings, Prakhar aged 11 and Diya aged 9, crave to know their estranged Grandmother who lives miles away in Goa. One day, the duo stumbles across a box of unopened letters hidden away by their mother. They then decide to run away from home and travel alone from Mumbai to Goa in order to bring their Grandmother home. Through the film, the question is provoked: what does it take to be courageous?

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Barefoot to Goa (Director. Praveen Morchhale) is an exploration of family.

The above sentence may sound simple and clichéd even, but as this film conveys, the subject is far from simple and portrays the impossibility of families fitting into what may seem, the neat borders of cliché.

A brother and sister being brought up in bustling Mumbai decide to set out on the search for their Grandmother.

Part of a normal nuclear family- an aloof nuclear family- the young siblings, Prakhar aged 11 and Diya aged 9, crave to know their estranged Grandmother who lives miles away in Goa.

One day, the duo stumbles across a box of unopened letters hidden away by their mother.

They then decide to run away from home and travel alone from Mumbai to Goa in order to bring their Grandmother home.

Through the film, the question is provoked: what does it take to be courageous?

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Get ready London film fans! The fabulous London Indian Film Festival, running July 10th – 17th, will bring you an eclectic and cool mix of films! Now Europe’s largest platform for Indian cinema, the London Indian Film Festival returns to the Capital, in association with Pure Heaven, the British Film Institute, and official Hotel Partner Grange Hotels, celebrating the exploding movement of Indian Independent cinema and bringing to UK audiences a rare selection of cutting-edge films from some of the Indian subcontinent’s hottest independent talents. Going way beyond Bollywood, the festival presents a kaleidoscope of new films that challenge, shock, generate debate and present a more realistic view of India and the subcontinent today, in all its diversity.

The festival has many highlights and will showcase Emma Thompson’s Sold and Million Dollar Arm, which stars Jon Hamm and also boasts a bevy of Bollywood stars! The festival will stretch citywide,...

Film: ‘Peepli Live’; Director: Anusha Rizvi; Cast: Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffar, Malaika Shenoy, Vishal Sharma, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sitaram Panchal, Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Bashir; Producer: Aamir Khan; Rating: ****

It is a miracle that a script like ‘Peepli Live’ has been turned into a movie and has got a commercial release. It is certainly surprising that a mainstream filmmaker like Aamir Khan decided to invest money in a movie that puts the spotlight on grave issues like the plight of Indian peasants.

And,.