Fantastic, heart-wrenching film interweaving a powerfully symbolic story with a backdrop of real events and situations.

The central love story is really more a story of social forces in conflict (Geeta the nation herself, Arun the muddled leftovers of feudalism, Vikram the bourgeois moderniser and Siddharth the revolutionary moderniser) and the actors do full justice to their dual roles. All I could have asked for really is more depth on the depiction of events in Bihar but the film didn't suffer from a lack of depth overall.

One of the best documentaries I've ever seen, chronicling the little known story of the courageous young volunteers who travelled to work undercover for the African National Congress using their white skin as the ultimate alibi. The film's storytelling, blending interview and archive footage with reenactment, is fantastic, and the actors' performances are superb.

This film has a really interesting setting and premise but the plot was difficult to understand from the English subtitles, and the visuals didn't quite make up for that. I imagine it's much better to a Cantonese speaker and I can't rate it fairly because of that, but I did enjoy it.