American documentary filmmaker Chris Smith (American Movie, The Yes Men) has here directed and photographed, shakily, a fiction film in Hindi, centered around a spaghetti-thin menial at a hotel in Goa who greedily eyes a paradisiacal pool house, longs for a rightful dip in the pool, wangles part-time employment there as a handyman, and hangs out on his off hours with the rebellious daughter of the gloomy man of the house. Poky, puttery, but steeped in flavorful atmosphere. And the characters, while not particularly insinuating, are individuals, not types. Jhangir Badshah, Venkatesh Chavan, Ayesha Mohan, Nana Patekar. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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