Phas Gaye Re Obama
- warm
- brisk
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Om, a debt-ridden NRI, wants to sell his ancestral property to pay his debts, but things turn awry when he is kidnapped by gangsters who believe him to be a rich target.
Our read · Phas Gaye Re Obama (2010) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · satire · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Phas Gaye Re Obama
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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