Road to Ladakh

Cast: Koel Purie, Irrfan Khan
Language: English
Director(s): Ashvin Kumar
Writer(s): Ashvin Kumar
Censor Certificate: A
Genre: Drama, Thriller/short film

PLOT : Irrfan Khan (The Warrior) and Koel Purie (Everybody Says I'm Fine) lead this surreal rites of passage encounter between a dysfunctional, coke-snorting fashion model and an ultra-focussed, strong-silent stranger who are thrown together by chance. Set in the magnificent wilderness moon-scape of Ladakh, India, the road journey and the strange encounters that follow provide a dramatic backdrop for the relationship that develops.Both are outsiders, both are lonely, both crave the human contact that their roles in society deny them. Tentatively they search each other out in a film that is poised between elusiveness and engagement, suspicion and tenderness - at once hilarious and sinister, bizarre and moving, psychedelic and intensely real.

MY REVIEW:Frankly not my kind of movie.Somehow the idea of a drug addict fasion model roaming in her SUV alone in the remote,difficult terrain of Ladakh is not very convincing.Irfan Khan doesn't have to do anything to look mentally deranged terrorist.The only reason i saw this movie was the fact that the this is Ashvin Kumar's first short film(up to best of my knowledge).Who Ashvin Kumar???He's the same guy who's short film

"LITTLE TERRORIST" was nominated for best live action short film category at 2005 OSCARS.My next review is of the same.But before that I thought of watching Ashvin Kumar's previous work.Plus the fact that he made "ROAD TO LADAKH" using internet in2003 to gather the crew from all over the world to work for free .This fact makes the movie interesting & one feels compelled to congratulate Ashvin Kumar for the effort.

MY RATINGS:2/5