Siddharth Sethi Weds Preet Kaur – Reviewed by Marcello Rollando

Freedom and Peace Come to Those Who Listen

In less than three minutes, this Pillow Talk Productions, Siddharth Sethi Weds Preet Kaur with subtitles even when speaking English, exposes revealing exposition with recent bride voiceover accompanied by silent mood transition close ups – and darkness immaculately skewed to keep us craving to see the light, of what’s lit, and why.

This is no American fast paced action flick with sex and gunplay guaranteed every third scene between car chases, murder, and mayhem – but it is wisely set in NYC where one can selectively admire Manhattan from across the East River in Brooklyn. 

Yet clearly director Jayesh Jaidka and DP Mete Gaultiken keep us in the dark so we can, with our mind’s eye perhaps – see that something has been snuffed out by dehumanization twisting exhilaration into fragmentation.

Preet Kaur (Manasvi Sharma) is a bride from India now in New York seeking the friendship from perhaps her only friend now, Jugal (Manik Singh Anand), who can’t imagine Preet’s perception of Manhattan as a place of restorative peace.

The edit talent of director Jayesh Jaidka gracefully reminds us that film is at its best when, moving pictures – if only we listen with more than our ears.

After an opening tease of what’s not to come:  airport visuals where people are but silhouettes, before we are completely immersed in the darkness that, which by its very nature, brightens the light we have in common with this earthbound pupa, – puncturing externals, without touch, for a way to finish life’s sentence: 

Now I am…