Two policewomen in New Delhi rub up against sexual harassment, gender expectations, and the exhaustion of the job’s constant pressures in Ivan Ayr’s understated gem of a debut, “Soni.” With an intelligent, subtle script and camerawork so organically natural one doesn’t immediately realize that each scene is shot in one take, the film draws on a subject much in the news and spins it into a multilayered yet low-key study without preaching or sensationalizing. When indie Indian films make a splash away from home they tend to be sentimental feel-good dramedies; with the right marketing, “Soni” could break the pattern and become an international art-house sleeper.
Undercover cop Soni (Geetika Vidya Ohlyan) works the night shift as part of a decoy operation targeting violent crimes against women. Naturally no-nonsense and under considerable strain from personal issues (not fully revealed until near the end), she’s quick to anger when pushed,...
Undercover cop Soni (Geetika Vidya Ohlyan) works the night shift as part of a decoy operation targeting violent crimes against women. Naturally no-nonsense and under considerable strain from personal issues (not fully revealed until near the end), she’s quick to anger when pushed,...
- 9/8/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
For a software professional arc lights, cameras may have been strange companions but for this It professional, the transition has been pretty smooth. Thanks to his long involvement with theater and passion for story-telling, Sachin Gupta has switched over professions with a remarkable ease. As a Theater director and producer he has produced 13 original plays and has done more than 90 showing across India. His international accomplishment has been in form of all American cast 3 Broadway plays in USA and Canada. While staging shows, he also studied Acting at prestigious Lee Strasberg Film Institute, New York & at Fanshawe College, Canada. He learnt nuances of Shakespearean acting at the prestigious Emerson College in Us.
His maiden film Parathe Wali Galli, extensively shot in by-lanes of old Delhi, is all set to enchant the audience with its simplicity and light humour on 17 January 2014. Director-producer Sachin Gupta talks about the film, his love for theater and a lot more…...
His maiden film Parathe Wali Galli, extensively shot in by-lanes of old Delhi, is all set to enchant the audience with its simplicity and light humour on 17 January 2014. Director-producer Sachin Gupta talks about the film, his love for theater and a lot more…...
- 12/16/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
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