Amu

Name: Amu
Genre: Drama
Released: May 25, 2007
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 54

2007

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Emerging Pictures | Release Date: May 25, 2007

Summary: Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju stumbles against secrets and lies from her past. A horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins. (Emerging Pictures)

Director: Shonali Bose

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 102 min

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Kirk Honeycutt

The movie takes on the quality of a first-rate detective story. Read full review

Carina Chocano

Despite the overt message and Manichean universe it pushes, Amu manages some memorable cinematic moments while getting the word out for its cause. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

This debut feature from writer-director Shonali Bose has a powerful finale, in which the filmmaker uses imaginative camera angles and a vibrant sound design to re-create the turmoil and terror of the riots. Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

Admirably idealistic but dramatically awkward. Read full review

Joshua Katzman

In Shonali Bose's tightly constructed debut feature... the slaughter of thousands of Sikhs during the riots sparked by Indira Ghandi's assassination take on greater personal significance. Read full review

Jessica Grose

Too bad first-time writer-director Shonali Bose's juxtaposition of the personal and the political often feels forced, and like many didactic history lessons, this one's about 20 minutes too long. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Fails to grab the imagination as it unfolds in familiar TV-movie fashion. Read full review

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SashaF.

May 25, 2007

It was a very touching film, and rather complex in its depiction of the genocide. It doesn't try and explain everything to you, and assumes you are intelligent enough to get it. I guess folks from the New York Post aren't though. Well, too bad for them, if they want everything It was a very touching film, and rather complex in its depiction of the genocide. It doesn't try and explain everything to you, and assumes you are intelligent enough to get it. I guess folks from the New York Post aren't though. Well, too bad for them, if they want everything handed on a platter to them .… Expand

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