How do you make a documentary on India? # show a lot of colors # show a lot of street people # show spicy food # fill the background with a lot of local music # let there be dust and cattle filling the streets and your film # have a VO that guides you along the film # pick up one element like cuisine of clothes and cover it well # show poverty
and a few more such regular elements and you have a documentary film that wins accolades. I expected the same form this when I went for a screening. No. This is different. This is about a group of people going around the country in a car which is almost a derelict now, with no ideas preset about how to make this documentary. They just shot what they saw and heard.
Patched it up with the five people narrating the trip, and some amazing music, which thankfully sounded Indian as well as international. I laughed when I heard the first song. Indian film's are famous for their multitude of songs and this one has 11 of them. I liked some of them. Found some of the songs a waste.
A little too much of driving in the film. I would have liked them to stop and shoot the places more. But the visuals were very nicely shot.
Good film with a dose of entertainment throughout and a very simple yet novel presentation of India. A lot of aspects of India were uncovered but a lot of others which are ignored by other films were pleasantly there in the film.
2 hours later all i felt was - this was a fun way to look at India. Documentary?