Festival Report
Rotterdam 2010 Diary: Indian Shorts
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni’s short film, Gaarud (The Spell) is an exercise in panoramic realism, the kind that will remind you of Bela Tarr, this time with a deft and grounded passion concern for its subject matter. It is a collective portrait of city tenement dwellers whose lives seem to bring a thread of underclass despair.




