Drama, based on actual events, exploring the heartbreak of a father who journeys across Indian in search of his son, believed...
Drama, based on actual events, exploring the heartbreak of a father who journeys across Indian in search of his son, believed to be taken by child-traffickers. Directed by Richie Mehta (I'll Follow You Down).
Mehendra (Rajesh Tailang) is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends 12-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory. When the boy doesn't come home for the Diwali holiday, Mehendra and his wife Suman suspect that he was kidnapped. With few resources and no connections, Mehendra desperately travels to Punjab and Mumbai with the hope that whoever took Siddharth might return him unharmed.
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90 %41 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
77 %380 reviewsAudience score rating
"This year has given Western audiences diverse experiences based on Indian culture, from easy heart-warming fluff (The Hundred-Foot Journey) to medium-level thought-provoking crowd-pleasers (The Lunchbox). Well prepare yourself for Hard Mode, because Siddharth confronts a dark and depressing reality that will likely – and unfortunately – turn off fans of those previous two broadly-appealing films."
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Flicks
Flicks"Mehta's engrossing, multi-layered film is a movingly handled story of a child's disappearance."
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Variety
Variety"Its portrayal of impoverished, careworn people barking at one another and protecting their territory in a daily struggle is bracingly hardheaded."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"A film of subdued but mounting panic and grief - an unsentimental portrait of poverty in contemporary India and of a benighted man's efforts to understand the world beyond his workaday struggles."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"This quietly impassioned indictment of child-labor takes its time to get going but then builds steadily to a surprisingly strong finale."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterSiddharth | Details
- Runtime
- 96
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Canada, India
