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The Nutty, Colorful, and Moving Sister Midnight Is Well Worth Seeing
Karan Kandhari’s feature directing debut has style to burn and even some genre-inflected twists, but it still remains grounded in human drama.
Karan Kandhari’s colorful and deeply odd Sister Midnight, about the frustrations of a young woman in a working-class corner of Mumbai, is one of those movies that starts over here and ends waaay over there. The film begins with a young newlywed couple, Uma (Radhika Apte) and Gopal (Ashok Pathak), arriving by train in the big city, where he’s got a small crowded room waiting for her. The film takes place along a small settlement of one-room shops and shacks, and we catch glimpses of these other little worlds throbbing behind those doors and windows, all forbiddingly aglow with life.
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