An amusing bridal switcheroo, “Laapataa Ladies” (or “Lost Ladies” in some territories) makes effective use of Bollywood’s broad social messaging. This mode of storytelling can be heavy-handed for the sake of mass appeal, but director Kiran Rao deftly combines the literal and symbolic, resulting in a crowd-pleaser filled — for better or worse — with innate goodness.
Rao returns to the director’s chair for the first time since 2011’s “Dhobi Ghat,” the somber Mumbai diary with heartrending music by Gustavo Santaolalla and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Among the most notable departures from her debut film is that the score for “Laapataa Ladies,” composed by Ram Sampath, has a bouncy and propulsive quality, keeping the movie’s comedic musings on track.
A passenger train plays host to a case of mistaken identity when young, lovelorn newlyweds Deepak Kumar (Sparsh Shrivastava) and Phool Kumari (Nitanshi Goel) are separated in an accidental spouse swap en...
Rao returns to the director’s chair for the first time since 2011’s “Dhobi Ghat,” the somber Mumbai diary with heartrending music by Gustavo Santaolalla and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Among the most notable departures from her debut film is that the score for “Laapataa Ladies,” composed by Ram Sampath, has a bouncy and propulsive quality, keeping the movie’s comedic musings on track.
A passenger train plays host to a case of mistaken identity when young, lovelorn newlyweds Deepak Kumar (Sparsh Shrivastava) and Phool Kumari (Nitanshi Goel) are separated in an accidental spouse swap en...
- 12/10/2024
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Variety Film + TV
“Father, what is our caste?”
“Son, there is not caste for the poor…”
In an article published on Youth Ki Awaaz, Indian director Pawan K Srivastava starts with the phrase “We become what we read and watch”. The phrase, to him, sums up quite fittingly the kind of influence modern media has on the individual, the advantages as well as the negative aspects of this development. In times which sees governments shutting down parts of the internet or forcing companies like Google and Facebook to adjust their content to their political agenda, we have all witnessed the kind of power one has if this person or system takes control over digital and social media. It is of no use to control the everyday life of people, but it has become essential to observe and manipulate the kind of images you see on Facebook profile and which are sent via Snapchat and Whatsapp.
“Son, there is not caste for the poor…”
In an article published on Youth Ki Awaaz, Indian director Pawan K Srivastava starts with the phrase “We become what we read and watch”. The phrase, to him, sums up quite fittingly the kind of influence modern media has on the individual, the advantages as well as the negative aspects of this development. In times which sees governments shutting down parts of the internet or forcing companies like Google and Facebook to adjust their content to their political agenda, we have all witnessed the kind of power one has if this person or system takes control over digital and social media. It is of no use to control the everyday life of people, but it has become essential to observe and manipulate the kind of images you see on Facebook profile and which are sent via Snapchat and Whatsapp.
- 11/27/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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