love and shukla (2017)Shukla (Saharsh Kumar Shukla), a newly-married rickshaw driver, struggles to connect with his painfully shy bride Lakshmi (Taneea Rajawat). Their woes are compounded by his friends’ bad advice and his family’s inability to understand the concept of personal space.
Intimate in scope and small in scale, this sweet-natured drama offers a glimpse of a situation which is likely to be all-too familiar to many couples on the subcontinent. Uneven pacing and slightly under-developed characters might hinder the film’s prospects of theatrical success outside of the domestic market, but it could chime with a young Indian audience which is not used to seeing marital issues explored with such (relative) candour. Further festival interest is possible.
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