Here’s a film for which the label “low-key” feels particularly misleading, one whose power resides in its simplicity, in its ability to conjure grace out of a beguilingly ordinary tale. Nasir, Indian writer-director Arun Karthick’s sophomore feature, is a film of quiet pleasures and unassuming wonders. It follows a day in the life of the salesman it is named after, and unspools at his becalmed and contemplative pace. It opens with the sound of a morning prayer and retains that early morning dream-like aura, locking you in a state of reverie and then shattering it in a finale of startling violence.
A Muslim man in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Nasir (Koumarane Valavane) lives with his family in the city of Coimbatore, where he works in a Hindu-run clothing shop. His adopted son Iqbal (Sabari) struggles with a learning disability, his wife (Sudha Ranganathan) must leave...
A Muslim man in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Nasir (Koumarane Valavane) lives with his family in the city of Coimbatore, where he works in a Hindu-run clothing shop. His adopted son Iqbal (Sabari) struggles with a learning disability, his wife (Sudha Ranganathan) must leave...
- 1/29/2020
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
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