Giusepe Tornatore’s “Malena” was a rather influential film, whose impact still sends ripples across movie industries all over the world. Sushrut Jain, twenty years later, presents the same two concepts, of a young kid growing up and the place of (particularly single) women in society in the modern, but still rather conservative, setting of a Mumbai suburb.
“The Tenant” is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
13-year-old Bharat is struggling with adolescence in a patriarchal Mumbai suburb. His parents’ marriage is in crisis; the building bully constantly torments him for being too girly and for attending a high-class, English-speaking school; and his only friend is a childish 11-year-old, who gets even more bullied than he does. Meera, a beautiful cosmopolitan woman from the big city, moves in next door and immediately causes a stir. Bharat is drawn to her and they pursue an unlikely friendship. When Meera introduces him to soul music,...
“The Tenant” is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
13-year-old Bharat is struggling with adolescence in a patriarchal Mumbai suburb. His parents’ marriage is in crisis; the building bully constantly torments him for being too girly and for attending a high-class, English-speaking school; and his only friend is a childish 11-year-old, who gets even more bullied than he does. Meera, a beautiful cosmopolitan woman from the big city, moves in next door and immediately causes a stir. Bharat is drawn to her and they pursue an unlikely friendship. When Meera introduces him to soul music,...
- 5/18/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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