<p>Movie: Photograph</p>.<p>Hindi (U/A)</p>.<p>Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farukh Jaffer</p>.<p>Director: Ritesh Batra</p>.<p>Rating: **</p>.<p>Two oddballs meet. Then they keep meeting. But the story refuses to roll.</p>.<p><span class="italic">Photograph</span> is in no rush to capture anything. The romance, or the call-it-what-you-may, stands painfully still even as a mad Mumbai races past on familiarly chaotic tracks.</p>.<p>The film has everything tailor-made for festival circuits: its duration, cast and the pace. Director Ritesh Batra, the man who prepared <span class="italic"><em>The Lunchbox</em></span>, leaves a half-baked meal this time. And the deal-breaker here is Sanya Malhotra’s Miloni, a shy Chartered Accountancy student who guards her emotions like a dragon, even while she is at the dinner table with her family. Much of her words are reserved for the housemaid.</p>.<p>In one way, it's refreshing to see an unpredictable, introvert heroine. But her façade is too unyielding for a viewer looking all around for clues in a movie that is particularly stingy with cinematic giveaways.</p>.<p>Nawazuddin Siddiqui is more forthcoming, giving us a smile or two more. As a streetside photographer making a living at the Gateway of India, Siddiqui promises more than what he peddles: sunlight on your face and wind in your hair, along with his cheap instant frames.</p>.<p>Siddiqui's character is named Rafi, while Sanya is Noorie, making way for some old gems and a soothing Mohammed Rafi wafting in the background.</p>.<p>Much of the movie’s life comes from Siddiqui's good old grandmother (a terrific Farukh Jaffer), who holds him to ransom by ditching her pills till he finds a bride. Does he?</p>.<p>It's all open-ended here. Ritesh Batra doesn’t define his characters in <span class="italic"><em>Photograph</em></span>. The camera is all yours. Filters advised.</p>
<p>Movie: Photograph</p>.<p>Hindi (U/A)</p>.<p>Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farukh Jaffer</p>.<p>Director: Ritesh Batra</p>.<p>Rating: **</p>.<p>Two oddballs meet. Then they keep meeting. But the story refuses to roll.</p>.<p><span class="italic">Photograph</span> is in no rush to capture anything. The romance, or the call-it-what-you-may, stands painfully still even as a mad Mumbai races past on familiarly chaotic tracks.</p>.<p>The film has everything tailor-made for festival circuits: its duration, cast and the pace. Director Ritesh Batra, the man who prepared <span class="italic"><em>The Lunchbox</em></span>, leaves a half-baked meal this time. And the deal-breaker here is Sanya Malhotra’s Miloni, a shy Chartered Accountancy student who guards her emotions like a dragon, even while she is at the dinner table with her family. Much of her words are reserved for the housemaid.</p>.<p>In one way, it's refreshing to see an unpredictable, introvert heroine. But her façade is too unyielding for a viewer looking all around for clues in a movie that is particularly stingy with cinematic giveaways.</p>.<p>Nawazuddin Siddiqui is more forthcoming, giving us a smile or two more. As a streetside photographer making a living at the Gateway of India, Siddiqui promises more than what he peddles: sunlight on your face and wind in your hair, along with his cheap instant frames.</p>.<p>Siddiqui's character is named Rafi, while Sanya is Noorie, making way for some old gems and a soothing Mohammed Rafi wafting in the background.</p>.<p>Much of the movie’s life comes from Siddiqui's good old grandmother (a terrific Farukh Jaffer), who holds him to ransom by ditching her pills till he finds a bride. Does he?</p>.<p>It's all open-ended here. Ritesh Batra doesn’t define his characters in <span class="italic"><em>Photograph</em></span>. The camera is all yours. Filters advised.</p>