Sheela Shah

Well done and thank you both Oprah and Netflix for giving us this superbly acted and directed show, beautifully choreographed, accurately casted, with the most enthralling and rivetting storyline/screenplay/music/costumes….Plus, such meaningfully relevant and important Christian messages….Oh! Everything was faultless!! A consistently upheld storyline unravelling a beautiful interplay between hypocracy and faith, greed and kindness, lust and charity, forgiveness and love! Absolutely unforgettable show and unmissable!! A definitely addictive series for all of us binge-watchers!! And, the unforgettable delivery of the Christian message in so many different ways that would enrapture even the non-believer!!! However…the unreality of this show which is a bit of a spoiler is the obviously blatant statement about a racial element….really, Oprah! Did ALL the characters (including the figures in the wall paintings) have to be people of colour, whilst the worst, lowliest of the low villians were white? Was this meant to be disguised racial statement served on a silver platter??

Unavoidable! Oscar winner surely?

An award winning film!! Brilliant direction; superb screenplay; flawless acting! Well done Ms Naval! You should be proud of yourself. Thank you.

Brilliant screenplay, acting, humour and a poignant take home message, enacted with perfection by the 3 main actors (plus Bahuballi)! Unmissable! Although our so called “film critics” missed the point of the film altogether because they must have the qualifications of only being able to commend the blockbuster bollywood types!

A poignant snapshot into the sad plight of the defenceless outcasts in Hindu society... the untouchable street orphans, the illiterate widows and the abused eunuchs... the film captures the pathos, pain and paradox of the colourless plight of these people amidst the colourful sanctity of the holy city! Superb storyline, flawless direction, remarkable acting of little Choti and Noor, amidst artistic screenplay... one can go on and on with praise without doing justice to this masterpiece! And to realise that the the ban on discrimination against widows in India was lifted as recently as 2013 is an eye opener!