| Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid (2012) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2012 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Mystery
Description Two city-bred kids Shreya and Sam travel to their dusty Haryana village for vacation with their parents. What happens there is an adventure, which comes packed with significant life lessons. It's not the idyllic village of their dreams but a problem-ridden place with dried up ponds, unfriendly villagers, unspoken secrets, out-of-bounds spaces, a child-eating daayan (witch) and no girls, a reason why wives are imported from other states.
In the backdrop of this engrossing adventure the social issue of female foeticide is subtly interwoven without being preachy and melodramatic.
Cast: Parvin Dabas, Suhasini Mulay, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Harsh Mayar, Lehar Khan, Krishang Trivedi, Rahul Singh |
