This glossy debut feature takes Shakespeare’s King Lear and re-imagines it as a soapy melodrama set in an Indian immigrant family in London.
Datta uses a story of family bereavement and subsequent readjustment to touch upon hot-button subjects such as the tension between Indian Hindus and Muslims that lingers from Partition. But her noble intentions are undermined by the reliance on some of the cornier Bollywood tropes, such as slow-motion shots of women in saris running through flower-filled meadows.
Sangeeta Datta (120min)