Filmed on a modest budget with a subtle sense of place and pace, this highly impressive debut considers mortality with a wry compassion that's rare for such a young director.
Hotel Salvation
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India · 2016
1h 43m
Director Shubhashish Bhutiani
Starring Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Palomi Ghosh
Genre Comedy, Drama
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An ominous dream convinces 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar that his end could be near. He tells his son Rajiv that he wants to breathe his last in the holy city of Varanasi and end the cycle of rebirth, by attaining salvation. As a dutiful son, Rajiv must drop everything and make the journey with his stubborn father.
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Hotel Salvation is a bittersweet meditation on life, death and salvation.
Their wry, odd-couple chemistry is comfortingly familiar, but kept fresh by an insouciant realism that deftly avoids exotic cliché.
Time Out London by Trevor Johnston
A leisurely, wise and ultimately affecting meditation on the benefits of letting go.
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