'Tis the season of
Slumdog but a foreign director making an Indian film is not entirely new.
Shadows of Time takes Indian melodrama and an excellent cast and its German director ratchets everything down a few notches to make an intriguing and good looking film, albeit slow. Both Slumdog and Shadows of Time also have a childhood romance - the abundance in which this theme features in Indian movies is analysed somewhere in
here.
L: Shadows of Time R: The Pool
I have yet to see
The Pool which takes an American short story and transplants it to Goa. It has had glowing
reviews but given that it seems decidedly quotidian it is perhaps more an indie circuit film than one on the path to the Oscars.
