A brilliant satire that showcases the great rural-urban divide in modern India, without glossing over the contradictions of the world's largest democracy where the media is all-powerful to shape public opinion, but the nauseating bureaucracy of the government and those running for public office rival the degenerate state of affairs of vote-bank politics and the general disconnect with the rural poor.
With a superb script, the story reveals the irony of desperate measures taken by people in desperate times, and is an exemplary offering to the Academy Awards 'Foreign Film' category.