Time has come to a standstill at the quaint café where middle-aged widower Saajan Fernandes, essayed by Irrfan Khan, sits at a table near the exit, his eyes fixed on a woman at another table, frantically searching for him. Like The Lunchbox, Photograph follows two strangers — whose romance would never have blossomed — but for an unlikely plot device. …
Six years after The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra returns to Mumbai with another film about two lonely souls. The two of them meet, first with Rafi’s irrepressible dadi in tow and then by themselves, and a tentative, halting friendship develops. Batra’s touch is anything but tentative and halting; he seemed to emerge fully formed with his first feature, and has only …
Photograph Director: Ritesh Batra Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra Rating: 4.5/5 Photograph movie review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra in a still from Ritesh Batra’s new film. Ritesh Batra’s new film Photograph features a streetside photographer — one who sells the conceit that standing by a monument is itself monumental — and the film tells the story of a girl …
Following the global success of his debut feature, The Lunchbox, film-maker Ritesh Batra worked on two international projects. In Photograph, Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays Rafi, a street photographer, and Sanya Malhotra plays Miloni, a lonely middle-class Mumbai girl. The starting point for Photograph was the movies of the 1980 and 1990s, where a rich girl would fall in love with a …
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