- Ritesh Batra's "Photographer" is a delicate "rom-com" (or romantic comedy) around an unlikely couple.
- A debtor in his forties and a student pretend to be engaged to satisfy a grandmother.
- Real feelings will develop between them.
When a mischievous grandmother decides to marry her grandson, the latter is ready to do anything to neutralize her, including passing a young girl whom he has photographed for her fiancée. The Photographer of Ritesh Batra explores the Map of Tender in the streets of Bombay, when the young man convinces the young lady to enter his game.
The love story that develops between two shy beings marks the return of the Indian filmmaker to his country after At the hour of memories and Our souls at night . Where Hollywood would have multiplied bursts of laughter and misunderstandings, the director of The Lunchbox adapts the codes of "rom-com" (romantic comedy) in his own way. "My film is more like an independent author's film than a Bollywood fantasy," he said in the press kit.
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Love in India
In India, love is a delicate thing. The unhealthy shyness of the heroes accentuated by their difference in age and social condition deeply affects the spectator. The indebted photographer and the hardworking student are struggling to put a name on the feelings that gradually inhabit them. The grandmother turns out to be much slimmer than them. Her outspokenness often makes people smile, especially during a scene where she takes a picture of the couple that she doesn't consider tender enough.
Predict the end of the film
" These two characters extract themselves from their worlds and fall into the abyss that separates social classes in India, specifies the director. I was able to get attached to these differences. His tenderness for his heroes comes to the fore by discovering everyday life in an India torn between modernity and tradition. When the duo leaves a cinema by declaring that we can always predict the end of a film, the public smiles, happy to be able to hope that the best will eventually prevail for such touching characters.
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