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No Winter Holidays review: Doc on two widows surviving in the hills is wondrous in style, frustrating in effect

The premise of No Winter Holidays, the directorial debut of directors Rajan Kathet and Sunir Pandey, is one that transfixes. Yet, with all the best efforts in negotiating a space within their daily lifestyles, No Winter Holidays never really digs in to uncover the voices of these women. Yet, No Winter Holidays is somehow stuck in locating its own subjects- this is a film which is interested only in acknowledging the stubbornness of a lifestyle, unable to brush off that blanket of shielded psychological spark that could have ignited this documentary with much needed warmth and immediacy. A work like No Winter Holidays affirms the need for authentic experiences to be documented with not just style and technique, but most definitely with a firm hold of its own distinct voice.

Hindustan Times
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