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Road, Movie
Travel film with a runtime of 95 minutes, released in 2009. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
Living in a small landlocked town in northern India, Vishnu may not know what he wants to do in life, but he certainly knows what he doesn't want to do - and that's to join his father's failing hair-oil business. Desperate to find an escape from a dreary future, Vishnu persuades a friend of his father's to let him deliver the old man's 1942 Chevy truck to the seaside museum to which it has been sold. Despite his father's outrage at his son's irresponsible behaviour, Vishnu sets off on his adventure across the harsh terrain of the Rajasthan desert. Along the way, a young runaway, a chatty old Jack-of-all-trades and a beautiful gypsy woman join Vishnu. Lost in the desert, without water and food, the journey turns dark when corrupt cops and a notorious bandit, who terrorises anyone who dares to take water from the wells that he controls, ambush them. Waylaid, Vishnu and his friends discover two old Victorian projectors in the back of the Chevy and realise that the old truck is in fact a touring cinema. And so, hoping to negotiate their release through entertaining their captors, they begin projecting the films they've found. Road, Movie thus combines director Dev Benegal's fascination for tales from the open road with his great love of the cinema, and in so doing offers up a fresh alternative to standard Bollywood fare. The score is composed by Canadian musician Michael Brook, whose past works include collaborations with, among others, U Srinivas and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, as well as many film soundtracks.
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