2010 · crime · comedy · drama
Ishqiya
Directed by Abhishek Chaubey1h 55m2010
While on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.
Our read: Ishqiya (2010) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded crime · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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