This vividly textured film by first time Canadian director Richie Mehta, shows us an unvarnished India through the touching story of one man’s decency. By examining a family in which wealth creates nothing but the hunger for more, the story evokes lingering vestiges of the caste system. Acting as an inadvertent inspiration to the dying patriarch, Amal’s wisdom teaches that we are defined as much by what we sacrifice as by what we possess. 101 mins. In English and Hindi with subtitles.

“… modest and good-hearted, yet finally unsentimental.” Adam Nayman, Eye Weekly