Siddharth

Streaming video - 2013

A spellbinding and gorgeously wrought tale of one father's journey across India in search of his son. Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory. When the boy doesn't come home for the Diwali holiday, Mehendra and his wife Suman slowly begin to suspect that he was kidnapped by child traffickers. With few resources and no connections, Mehendra desperately travels to Punjab and Mumbai with the hope that whoever took Siddharth might return him unharmed. Winner of the Best Film and Best Director Award at the **South Asian International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto ...International Film Festival**. *"A spare, lean and decidedly unsettling account of the ugly reality of child labor and child abduction in India." - Tirdad Derakhshani, **Philadelphia Inquirer***

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Zeitgeist Films 2013.
2019.
Language
Hindi
Other Authors
Richie Mehta (film director), Rajesh Tailang (actor), Tannishtha Chatterjee
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).