Brahmin Bulls **
Dir: Mahesh Pailoor.
With: Sendhil Ramamurthy, Roshan Seth, Mary Steenburgen, Cassidy Freeman. 96
mins. Cert: 12A
This genial, L.A.-set
indie contrives a reunion between widowed professor Roshan Seth and his
self-absorbed architect son Sendhil Ramamurthy, connected only by the mess
they’ve made of their personal lives. Unlike much recent Silver Screen fodder,
Mahesh Pailoor’s film is appreciably relaxed around matters of age and race,
yet – as a missing-cat subplot suggests – it’s somewhat underpowered: Pailoor’s
energies have gone on over-neat scripting that insistently turns everything
from large-scale construction projects to fleeting items of toilet graffiti
into comments on the characters’ lives. As soon as the prof plants roots in his
son’s backyard an hour in, we know everyone’ll basically be fine – and they
are.
Brahmin Bulls opens in selected cinemas from today.
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