Terms of Endearment: An Interview with Siddarth Director Richie Mehta

In young Indian-Canadian auteur Richie Mehta’s newest picture, a middle-aged New Delhi resident who can barely support his wife and two kids by fixing zippers sends son Siddarth to work in a factory in far away Ludhiana. The cat who runs the factory is related to them distantly, but — as Mahendra (Rajesh Tailing) is told by his employer Om (Amitabh Srivasta) and discovers when his son never returns for a scheduled holiday — family can mean very little to men when money stands between them. Getting the police involved in this violation of child labor law proves tricky for […]

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