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restraint and numbers are often more pleasing in concept than execution", but also felt that the film "successfully sidesteps rarified, over-literary small-screen look". Carol Kane as Mrs. Shaw is praised for her nuanced performance: "Such is the power of Kane's oddball sweetness that she is able to invest these scenes with amazing emotional resonance. Overweight and without makeup, Kane has a vulnerability that reads as a rare form of courage." And director Nisha
Ganatra is noted for "ground Kane's feyness in workaday experience and middle-aged acceptance, making her the perfect vehicle for Seth's long-delayed voyage of self-discovery".
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Bollywood musical sequences livening up tender moments." Calling the film "charming", he opined that the film "suffers slightly from tasteful
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Mongolia. He tries to cope with his emptiness by redecorating slightly, searching through the various corners of
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whole new set of fantasies on his part. A few nights later Gopal sees her on her porch nursing a drink, and after a tentative conversation, asks her to have
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