Miss Lovely

India

2012

110 Min

Color

2.35:1

Hindi

Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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SCR Ashim Ahluwalia, Uttam Sirur

CAST Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil George

ED Ashim Ahluwalia

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Toronto (City to City), Rotterdam (Bright Future), CPH PIX (Asian Connection)

Synopsis

Set in the lower depths of Bombay’s C-grade film industry, Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sex-horror films in the mid-1980s. The film gets under the skin of the Bollywood underground — an audacious cinema with wild cinemascope compositions, lurid art direction, rollicking background soundtracks, and gut-wrenching melodrama. –TIFF

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Hans Joachim

17Sep12

Any more info on this filmmaker would be greatly appreciated!

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Hans Joachim

17Sep12

This was THE hidden diamond of TIFF '12 - and unlike any film i saw at the festival - dark & beautifully made, built of sweat and poetry. Like an impressionistic, fucked-up documentary shot in the bowels of the mumbai exploitation industry in the 80s, this film just blew me away with it's pulp & beauty, dense atmosphere & silk shirts.. gorgeous filmmaking - made with a true love of cinema. really incredible.

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msmichel

11Sep12

TIFF '12 Starts off incredibly well with an authentic take on underground Indian exploitation film being made in the eighties just as the medium was turning to videotape. Two brothers thinking themselves filmmakers making erotic horror films don't seem to see themselves as merchants of porn. The younger one meets a young lady he wants to make a star and as they say complications ensue. If the film had been ...

msmichel

11Sep12

..to keep the tone/look it had in the first couple of reels it really could have been something special. Former documentarian filmmaker has however made quite the nice calling card. Not for all tastes.

JASMINE J

30Aug12

damn, this film be something else. killer pop style, dark atmosphere, intense really. just saw it in melbourne - the best indian film i've ever seen. would love to see it again - but yes, wild & not to everyones tastes (as are all the good things, no?). for them whitey's expecting elephants - nah, not going to happen with this one, really...

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