Pairon Talle (Soul Of Sand) Movie Reviews

He freezes. A fly’s buzzing on a factory watchman’s face, he traps it in his palm, and crushes it. Cruel? But then that’s life on an isolated expanse, outskirting Delhi, where fast food chains vend pizzas and ‘burgers, for those who can afford Rs 500-a-pop meals. As for those standing sentinels to the multi-crore properties, who cares? Director Sidharth Srinivasan’s Pairon Talle: Soul of Sand attempts to posit a change of the feudal order, which is its chief strength

It's Dilli again. Minus Chandni Chowk and chaat, baraats and bhangra, lassi and ladkis. Not that there's anything wrong with Delhi a few shades duller, but the film starts out on an interesting premise, and rolls onto the beaten track, riddled with characters and climaxes that are mediocre and mundane. Set in a ghostly abandoned mine, that has only an impoverished couple Bhanu (Dibyendu Bhattacharya) and Saroj(Saba Joshi), and a junked bull-dozer for company

The outskirts of Delhi, in Sidharth Srinivasan’s ‘Pairon Talle’, bear a desolate, deserted look. But underneath it all bubbles all kinds of unpalatable stuff : masked criminals on motorbikes, desperate factory owners willing to barter their young daughters to old men for a fistful of money, hapless lovers on the run, cops on the take, and a watchman who is the last man standing between hope and despair. 'Pairon Talle’s story comes out of its landscape