Tahaan

REVIEW: Tahaan is painfully slow In fails on two primary accounts the lack of novelty in the story and the flagging narrative. However deep down one wants the story to go somewhere. ... Full Review

In times when most movies make an ass of themselves, Tahaan comes as an endearing experience. Tahaan's desperate drive to get back his pet friend is clearly derived from Sivan's previous children film Halo that had a small girl in frantic search of her puppy pal across the city. ... Full Review

Boy Tahaan travels across perilous terrain, making the viewer hope desperately that the boy is reunited with his buddy. Stretching snowscapes, flickering lives that could be extinguished at any moment, a fatherless family and the adorable kid who wants to bring his pet donkey back home these are just some of the elements of  Santosh Sivans Tahaan which deals with  innocence versus violence in the valley. ... Full Review

ABOUT A decade ago, as I walked out of Dil Se Terrorist , the only thing that left with me in an otherwise drab film; was the strikingly haunting cinematography. Tahaan is his new cinematic outing and once again the subject deals with terrorism in Kashmir, though its only a sub-text; because the narrative unfolds through the character ofTahaan an eight-year-old boy and his unshakable love for his pet donkey (sounds better than ass! ... Full Review

You can also put it like its a film in which landscapes, too, plays an important role. Anupam Kher is really an inspiration. A. All the characters have played their roles beautifully. ... Full Review

MUMBAI: Cinematographer-turned-director Santosh Sivan's "Tahaan", a fable like journey of an eight-year-old boy in militancy-ravaged Kashmir, has been invited to as many as eight international film festivals. ... Full Article

Eight-year-old Purav Bhandar seems oblivious of the rave reviews he has eared for his performance in Santosh Sivan's Tahaan and says that he might go on to become a dentist."Maybe I'll be a dentist like my parents, and an actor. ... Full Article

A fable like fragility runs through Santosh Sivan's latest film. An exquisitely shot, wonderfully performed work of art set at a lyrical low-octave mellow pitch where you can actually smell the spices from a slow-burning chulha as they cook up... ... Full Article

PUNE: Come September and it is time for the Indian film industry to showcase its small-budget, meaningful films on offbeat subjects, many of them made by critically acclaimed directors. ... Full Article

Mumbai, Sept 5 (ANI): Bollywood's latest flick, 'Tahaan', a fable about an eight-year-old boy Tahaan and his donkey shot extensively in Pahalgam in Kashmir, is released across the country on Friday. ... Full Article