Videsh Hindi Movie

Feature Film | 2009 | Drama, Social Issues
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Videsh is a 2009 Indian movie directed by Deepa Mehta starring Vansh Bhardwaj, Rocky, Deepa Mehta and Yanna McIntosh. The feature film is produced by Ravi Chopra and David Hamilton and the music composed by Mychael Danna.



Release Info:
March 27 2009 (India)   
Language: Hindi
Director: Deepa Mehta
LEAD CAST
Vansh Bhardwaj
Rocky
Yanna McIntosh
Gick Grewal
Geetika Sharma

SYNOPSIS:
Vibrant and irrepressibly alive, Chand (Preity Zinta) is a young bride leaving her home in Ludhiana, India, for the cave... Show more

Vibrant and irrepressibly alive, Chand (Preity Zinta) is a young bride leaving her home in Ludhiana, India, for the cavernous landscape of Brampton, Ontario, where her husband Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj) and his very traditional family await her arrival. Everything is new to Chand everything is unfamiliar including the quiet and shy Rocky who she meets for the first time at the Arrivals level of Pearson Airport. Chand approaches her new life and her new land with equanimity and grace, and at times the wide-eyed optimism of hope-her first snowfall is a tiny miracle of beauty, and the roar of Niagara Falls creates the excitement of new beginnings.


But soon optimism turns to isolation as the family she has inherited struggles beneath the weight of unspoken words, their collective frustration becoming palpable. No one feels the pressure more than Rocky, weighed down by familial obligations. A controlling mother, who can't let him go, a sweet but ineffectual father, and a sister whose two children and unemployed husband are also a burden, all live with Rocky and Chand in a two-bedroom house in the suburbs of Toronto. To make matters worse, Rocky is expected to find the money to bring his extended family to Canada. Unable to express his anger, he finds other ways to release it and it's Chand who bears the brunt of his repressed rage.


Trapped in a world she cannot comprehend and unable to please her husband, Chand is desperate. Hope comes in the form of Rosa (Yanna McIntosh), a tough and savvy Jamaican woman who works alongside Chand in a factory where immigrant women from all over the world clean and press dirty hotel laundry. Rosa sees past the make-up that covers Chand's bruised face. Realizing Chand has nowhere to turn, Rosa gives her a magical root advising her "to put it in whatever the bastard drinks." The root is supposed to seduce the one who takes it, making them fall hopelessly in love with the person who gives it to them. Chand's attempts with the magic root lead to surreal incidents and her life gradually begins to mirror an Indian fable involving a King Cobra. As the lines between fantasy and reality converge, Chand and Rocky come face to face with each other and themselves.


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Cast & Crew Details:
Vansh Bhardwaj
Rocky
Deepa Mehta
Yanna McIntosh
Gick Grewal
Geetika Sharma
Preity Zinta

Director: Deepa Mehta
Producers: Ravi Chopra, David Hamilton
Music Director: Mychael Danna
Cinematographer: Giles Nuttgens
Editor: Colin Monie
Screenplay Writer: Deepa Mehta
Original Story Writer: Deepa Mehta


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