![]() ![]() Once in New York, the Hindi-speaking Shashi is faced with ever-mounting humiliations, in a series of beautifully mounted, yet squirm-inducing scenes. ![]() When Shashi is called upon to fly to New York City - solo - to help her sister arrange a niece’s wedding, she is terrified (look for Amitabh Bachchan in a short, but memorable, scene onboard her flight). Her teenaged daughter treats her with contempt, while the casually masked cruelty of her husband’s words ( Adil Hussain) cut her to the core: “My wife was born to make laddoos!” he gloats. Her laddoos (a golden, sweet snack ball) earn raves and she even runs a small catering business, but her family treats her like a servant. Shashi is a dedicated mother and gifted cook, the wife of a busy executive in the western Indian city of Pune. STORY: India Chooses ‘Barfi!’ for Oscars Foreign-Language Entry Indeed, a recent San Francisco Bay Area screening found the audience packed with families and young children, a heartening prospect given the film’s positive message encouraging diversity and tolerance. The Eros release, which enjoyed acclaim (and according to reports, a standing ovation) at the Toronto International Film Festival, is up against strong competition from the satire Oh My God and India’s foreign language Oscar submission, Barfi!, but its universal message - conveyed with wit and heart - is persuasive enough to draw a sizable audience nevertheless. ![]()
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