
In the city of Ahmadabad, six people are taken on an extraordinary journey during India's largest kite festival. Each year a million kites circle the skies of the old city. Wishing to share the festival's colorful splendor with his daughter, a thriving Delhi businessman takes her on a surprise trip to his childhood home. Yet among the music, fireworks, and light stirs thick emotions and fading dreams. He is forced to mend the broken relationships he left behind. A story of he... (Full plot summary below)
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In the city of Ahmadabad, six people are taken on an extraordinary journey during India's largest kite festival. Each year a million kites circle the skies of the old city. Wishing to share the festival's colorful splendor with his daughter, a thriving Delhi businessman takes her on a surprise trip to his childhood home. Yet among the music, fireworks, and light stirs thick emotions and fading dreams. He is forced to mend the broken relationships he left behind. A story of healing and renewal illustrated by actors and non-actors respectively, Patang offers a startling array of beauty and pain stirring among the kites in the sky.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis film is joyous, but more than that: It's lovely in its construction. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerBhargava is in love with a visual effect that makes his digital cinematography look like Super 8 film. It's like watching the whole movie through an Instagram filter, and it's utterly unnecessary. |
| TheDivaReview.comDiva VelezBeautifully acted and hypnotically staged, Patang is a feast for the senses that doesn't fail to deliver its story of family love and healing with real warmth and heart. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleBhargava's naturalistic approach to capturing the sights and sounds of a city in full revelry on rooftops and in the streets is colorfully vivid... |
| ScreenAnarchyJ HurtadoThe lack of contrivance that turns Patang into a work worthy of admiration. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's a vibrant film, at least, one that brings to life some of the ups and downs of contemporary family life in India. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe story falls flat and the impressionistic style - snippets of conversation, extreme close-ups, jittery handheld camera work - loses appeal after the first half hour. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenThe characters remain faces on a brochure. |
| Time OutDavid FearThis attempt at an Altmanesque ensemble piece feels a little dramatically flat even as it's dazzling your retinas. |
| User ReviewJason MThe movie has beautiful imagery and is very visceral. You can see, taste, smell, feel India throughout the movie. Loved it! |