Life Goes On (2009 film)
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Director Sangeeta Dutta Duration Language English | 6.2/10 IMDb Genres Drama, Indie film Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 30, 2009 (2009-10-30) (Mumbai Film Festival) Writer Javed Akhtar (lyrics), Sangeeta Datta, Rabindranath Tagore (lyrics) Cast Soha Ali Khan (Dia), Sharmila Tagore (Manju), Girish Karnad (Alok), Rez Kempton (Imtiaz), Om Puri (Alok)Similar movies Fish Tank , Factory Girl , Pitch Perfect 2 , The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things , The Last Witch Hunter , At the Edge of the Abyss Tagline A contemporary British Asian family drama centering around the conflict between a father and his three daughters spanning the six days between the death of his wife and the funeral. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Life Goes On is a 2009 film by Sangeeta Datta. It shows how a Hindu family in Britain copes with the death of the wife and mother. The story recalls Shakespeare’s King Lear.
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Plot
The film is set in modern London. The central character is Sanjay, a Hindu doctor, respected in his community. After the sudden death of his wife Manju, he struggles to relate to his three daughters. The drama follows the week from Manju's death to her funeral.
As well as dealing with grief and family ties, the film addresses inter-faith issues as Sanjay discovers that the youngest daughter Dia has a Muslim boyfriend, Imtiaz.
Wandering the streets of London the night before the funeral, Sanjay recalls his own childhood, when he left home with his parents during the partition of India.
Cast
Reception
The film won the Best Feature Film Award at the Pravasi International Film Festival in Delhi, and the Best Feature Film Audience Appreciation Award at the London Asian Film Festival.
Xan Brooks in the Guardian considered the acting "stiff and self-conscious".
References
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