Word: ratnam
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...attention of the browsing movie lover. And unlike other fests, this one has a longtime fondness for Asian films. In the '80s, Toronto introduced North American audiences to Hong Kong's top action directors, John Woo and Tsui Hark; in 1994 it ran a retrospective of Mani Ratnam's Tamil-language politicized melodramas...
...what age must a child be shaken awake from her dream life into reality? Nine, says Ratnam's haunting new film A Peck on the Cheek. Amudha (the sweetly precocious P.S. Keerthana) is celebrating her birthday, secure in the love of her Madras parents, a writer and a TV news reader. They have chosen this day to give the girl startling news: she is adopted, and the identity of her birth mother has been lost in the carnage of the Sri Lankan...
...earlier films (Roja, Bombay, Dil Se) Ratnam has set personal stories inside the cataclysmic events that have marked India's past decade. Here he suggests that no one, not even a bright, questing child, is safe from their taint. But this being a Bollywood-style musical?though with a Southern accent?a war-torn world can still sing, dance and hope. In that sense, A Peck on the Cheek suited the festival perfectly. It is an art film that is also tender entertainment. It shows people coping with national tragedies. And, like Toronto, the movie is?in the very best...