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Shwaas (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 5 Fresh: 2 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 5.5/10

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Genre: Dramas

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06/24/06

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08/16/07

Wally Hammond

Time Out New York

The simple story strains to maintain a run time that is already far shorter than the Indian film norm.

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02/27/05

Michael Dequina

Mr. Brown's Movies

While the film sometimes plays like an hour TV medical drama padded to reach feature length, Sawant achieves touching, naturalistic performances from a fine ensemble cast.

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01/06/05

Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

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An old-fashioned soaper that will please or not, depending on a viewer's tolerance for schmaltz.

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12/10/04

V.A. Musetto

New York Post

Mr. Sawant does his best to balance hopeful sentiment with the depressing prospect of a child's world going dark, and he tries to infuse this simple melodrama with a sense of tenderness and beauty.

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12/09/04

A.O. Scott

New York Times

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Takes a potential hot-button premise -- the callous indifference of the Indian medical bureaucracy toward the lower classes -- and dramatizes it in the most shameless way possible.

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12/08/04

Ben Kenigsberg

Village Voice

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