A hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for help, but complications land her in jail.
Cinematography
Mumbai slums shot like haunting poetry, not poverty porn.
Acting
Ishaan Khatter's debut burns with raw, unpolished desperation.
Direction
Majidi finds beauty in the brutal without sanitizing suffering.
Director
Majid Majidi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ishaan Khatter learned Hindi specifically for this role, his first ever film—Shahid Kapoor's half-brother was basically unknown before Majidi plucked him from obscurity.
Majidi, an Iranian master, shot Mumbai's Dharavi without the Slumdog Millionaire romanticism—locals initially resisted cameras until he cast actual residents.
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