My nephew, who loves movies, finally got totally flustered by my sheer ignorance of contemporary Indian movies. So he gave me a pile of DVDs of movies to watch. I’ve just managed one in the past two weeks- Vicky Donor.
Lovely movie, enjoyed every moment of it. Beautifully written, effortlessly directed- keeping the focus on moving the story forward. No its not a masterpiece by any stretch of imagination, but its not a movie to be wished away either.
What strikes me, as the ‘outsider’ to movie world is the change in the way characters talk- they use a lot of English now, no one’s scared of the movie and its story belonging to a place and using local nuance.
Of course because of its subject, this is a movie where sex and sexuality is ever present but in a pleasant straight forward manner. Its an enjoyable movie so it drives home the issues surrounding sperm donation pretty well, without getting squeamish about it.
Then there’s the cast where the seniors steal the show- Annu Kapoor and Dolly Ahluwalia are lovely to watch. Having worked with Dolly in the first short I ever made at FTII, it was great to see her mature as an actor.
I’m no judge of young actors, but the boy looked very good, hope he goes far.
Great to hear that the movie did superb business- so there’s hope for smaller movies. That’s the direction we’d take- scripted sensible movies.
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