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‘The Fable’ Review: A Father Takes Flight in an Evocative Indian Drama
Raam Reddy’s sophomore feature, 'Fable,' unearths the fear behind fairy tales and superstitions.
They exist mostly in the background, allowing for an intimate, mostly-English-language mood piece about Dev’s family to take center stage, when his teenage daughter Vanya (Hiral Sidhu) returns home from college for the chilly Himalayan summer. In setting these political critiques against such stunning, pristine scenery, “The Fable” reckons with the question of whether cultural fears that take hold of communities are a natural state or a human construction stemming from power and social hegemony. That this grim reality is so ferociously recalled by an ostensible fairytale is the source of “The Fable’s” irrepressible power, wielded by Reddy as though he were a cinematic sorcerer melding past and present, until memory, nostalgia and deeply held beliefs cease to be etched in stone.
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