Various passengers from various backgrounds are on a bus to Calcutta. Raja Chowdhury is asked to look after Meenakshi Iyer and her baby son. Other passengers include a bunch of loud young people, two Sikh men, an elderly Muslim couple, a couple making out, a woman and her mentally-handicap son, and some men playing cards. There is religious strife in the country. The bus encounters a closed road. The driver takes a detour and ends up at a roadblock with other vehicles. There has been attacks and a Hindu mob descends on the religiously mix group.
It's a post-9/11 melodrama about race relations in India. It's a little heavy-handed and a bit too long. That does subtract from the intensity. The group on the bus is deliberately random and carefully selected. I do give everyone involved full marks for the sincere effort. The newly formed couple is pretty effective.
It's a post-9/11 melodrama about race relations in India. It's a little heavy-handed and a bit too long. That does subtract from the intensity. The group on the bus is deliberately random and carefully selected. I do give everyone involved full marks for the sincere effort. The newly formed couple is pretty effective.