Sundance Film Festival 2019: Nawazuddin Siddiqui- Sanya Malhotra's Photograph Receives A Thumbs Up
Photograph, written and directed by The Lunchbox helmer Ritesh Batra, had its world premiere at the festival. International publications have hailed the movie as a quiet and effective romance.
At
the
2019
Sundance
Film
Festival,
India
also
made
its
presence
with
films
like
Photograph,
Ghode
Ko
Jalebi
Khilane
Le
Ja
Riya
Hoon
and
the
seven-part
series
Delhi
Crime
Story.
Photograph,
written
and
directed
by
The
Lunchbox
helmer
Ritesh
Batra,
had
its
world
premiere
at
the
festival.
International
publications
have
hailed
the
movie
as
a
quiet
and
effective
romance.
The
Hollywood
Reporter
called
it
'a
quiet
charmer.'
The
film
has
received
positive
reviews
mostly,
with
The
Hollywood
Reporter's
Caryn
James
writing,
"No
one
should
head
into
a
Batra
film
expecting
fireworks,
but
for
anyone
who
appreciates
his
understated
style,
Photograph
is
a
satisfying,
unswoony
romance." According
to
Fionnuala
Hallugan
of
Screen
Daily,
"Photograph
will
find
its
following
with
hopeless
romantics,
whether
that
be
on
the
big
screen
or
small."
On
the
other
hand,
Variety
called
Photograph
a
'nice'
film
and
wrote,
"Six
years
after
the
international
crossover
success
of
The
Lunchbox,
along
comes
Photograph
to
prove,
whatever
Thomas
Wolfe
may
think,
that
you
can
go
home
again.
Writer-director
Ritesh
Batra's
first
Indian
film
since
his
debut
feature
has
the
same
quiet
streak
of
wistful
sentimentality
that
made
The
Lunchbox
so
globally
beloved
-
and,
for
that
matter,
the
same
softly-softly
humanity
found
in
his
two
subsequent
English-language
efforts,
The
Sense
of
an
Ending
and
Our
Souls
at
Night.
Whether
roaming
the
streets
of
Mumbai
or
the
plains
of
Colorado,
Batra's
filmmaking
has
remained
markedly
consistent
in
tone
and
texture:
You'd
be
hard
pressed
to
find
anyone
making
nicer
films
in
world
cinema
right
now."
The
film
stage
shared,
"Batra
is
clearly
a
filmmaker
keyed
into
these
simple
pleasures
of
life
and
invites
us
to
luxuriate
in
them
throughout
Photograph".
The
award-winning
director's
next
film
will
have
its
European
Premiere
at
the
Berlin
Film
Festival
running
from
Feb
7th
through
the
17th.
After
the
much
acclaimed
'Lunchbox',
Ritesh
Batra
is
all
set
to
present
'Photograph' which
is
set
in
Dharavi,
Mumbai.
The
film
will
mark
Ritesh
Batra's
second
collaboration
with
the
talented
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui
and
first
collaboration
with
Sanya
Malhotra
who
is
currently
riding
high
on
the
success
of
her
latest
outing
'Badhaai
Ho'.