Amal

I am a judge for the Indianapolis-based Heartland Film Festival. This feature film is a Crystal Heart Award Winner and is eligible to be the Grand Prize Winner in October of 2008. The Heartland Film Festival is a non-profit that honors... Full review

Following the legacy of his deceased father, Amal Kumar (Rupinder Nagra) turned down a higher paying job at the post office to drive an auto-rickshaw on the streets of Dehli, India. Maneuvering daily through crowded streets daily to barely eke out... Full review

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8n0VydHys I really liked this film too. Story was just so good, it leaves you saying, "But, wait...!" Rupinder Nagra was great. Very understated. And I liked the young girl in it as well. It has some really funny moments, too,... Full review

Just got back from a cruise out of New York to Bermuda and was fortunate to have landed in Bermuda the same time as the BIFF (Bermuda International Film Festival) Amal was the only film my husband and I saw, and... Full review

I loved this movie...it reeled me in. I think that the movie was a great premise and well executed. I heard the director & lead actor speak and it was fascinating to hear them tell behind the scene stories. the director... Full review

I saw AMAL at the Toronto International Film Festival and was blown away. Amazing. What an incredible venture by the cast and crew - kudos to all of them. The film is filled with beauty and depth and everything that we... Full review

the profoundly decent Amal was more deserving of an inheritance than his own spoiled sons Vivek and Harish....If the world worked differently, first-timer Richie Mehta would assuredly ride an auto-rickshaw all the way to silver-screen success with Amal .....However one measures success, though, Amal is unquestionably a rich cinematic experience.....Instead, one suspects the writer/director of this auspicious pic about a New Delhi driver who toils along on the edge of financial ruin even.... ... Full Review

Amal largely overcomes its own shortcomings..... ... Full Review

Nagra, as Amal, embodies fundamental goodness without being priggish while Sahay portrays Vivek as a beautifully bored cosmopolitan, somehow retaining just a hint of lost-boy poignancy. The script began as a story by Shaun Mehta - Richie's brother - and was adapted first into a short film. ... Full Review

As a story, Amal the movie explores what a person gains or loses from the distribution of wealth. There are minor flaws, including one assumption about Amal, the man, that throws the plot off for a moment. ... Full Review

Played with understated skill by Rupinder Nagra, Amal carefully pilots his late father's only legacy, a glorified scooter with a backseat....Roshan Seth is especially effective as G.K.'s former business parter, Suresh, who is charged with the task of finding Amal..... ... Full Review

Amal (2007) Richie Mehta's Amal won the award in the feature film category in the River to River Indian Film Festival, Florence. Subarna Thapa's film "Funerailles" won award in the short film category, while Christopher Mitchell's "Super 30″ emerged winner... ... Full Article

Sunday, 11.16.2008, 11:28pm (GMT-7) NEW YORK: The Eighth Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival wrapped up its five day festival on Nov 9 at the Walter Reade Theater with the premiere of Sooni Taraporevala's Little Zizou. ... Full Article

The reputation of rickshaw drivers in New Delhi is apparently so atrocious that the characters in Amal regard the existence of a decent one as something of a miracle. ... Full Article

Starring Rupinder Nagra, Koel Purie, Naseeruddin Shah, Tanisha Chatterjee and Roshan Seth. Directed by Richie Mehta. 101 minutes. At the Varsity. 14A Diogenes walked the daylight streets of ancient Athens, holding a lighted lantern and searching in vain for an... ... Full Article

Western entertainment is fixated on vice -- Miami and otherwise.Asian films more often celebrate virtue, as two beautiful Silk Screen Festival entries illustrate."Amal" is Indian director Richie Mehta's fable of a humble "autorickshaw" driver. ... Full Article

Richie Mehta's gorgeously realized Amal , a Canadian indie filmed in the teeming streets and elite suites of Delhi, makes perfect sense as the opening-night presentation at the sixth annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA). ... Full Article