Umrika
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Genre Comedy, Drama Director Prashant Nair Music director Dustin OHalloran | 7.2/10 IMDb Duration Running time 1h 38m Screenplay Prashant Nair | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Prashant Nair (screenplay), Prashant Nair Initial release January 24, 2015 (Park City) Cast Suraj Sharma (Ramakant), Tony Revolori (Lalu), Prateik Babbar (Udai), Smita Tambe (Mère de Ramakant), Pramod Pathak (Père de Ramakant), Adil Hussain (Agent de l’Immigration)Similar movies Singh Saab the Great (2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Umrika ein film von prashant nair im kult kino basel
Umrika is a 2015 Indian Hindi comedy-drama film written and directed by Prashant Nair, and produced by Swati Shetty and Manish Mundra. It features Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Smita Tambe, Rajesh Tailang, Pramod Pathak, Adil Hussain, Amit Sial, Sauraseni Maitra and Prateik Babbar.
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- Umrika ein film von prashant nair im kult kino basel
- Umrika trailer
- Plot
- Cast
- Release
- Critical reception
- Awards
- References
Umrika premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award. Director Nair said that the film is "about the mythology of America, and more generally, how cultures perceive each other".
Umrika trailer
Plot
The film begins with Udai (Prateik Babbar) leaving his village for the United States. Following the death of his father, Udai's younger brother Ramakant (Suraj Sharma) realises that the letters his family has been receiving from Udai have been forged by his father and uncle, and learns that Udai vanished when he reached his port city, Mumbai. He embarks upon a journey to locate his brother.
Cast
Release
Shortly after its premiere, the film was sold by sales agent Beta Cinema to France, Germany, Austria, Australia, South Korea and numerous other territories, making it one of the most widely distributed Indian independent films of recent times that was incidentally, never released in India. The film had its European premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2015 .
Critical reception
Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times called Umrika a "warmly intelligent film" and included it in his 25 Films of note at Sundance 2015. Variety praised the film, giving kudos to "Nair’s soundly constructed script and deft handling of a very good cast." The Hollywood Reporter stated Nair has managed to incorporate several big and abstract topics — including what ties us to our families and place of birth and the extent to which these things are important — into a story in which they become highly personal for the characters.
Awards
References
Umrika WikipediaUmrika IMDb Umrika themoviedb.org