2012 · drama · experimental · mortality
Tey
Directed by Sameer Sharma2h 20m2012
On-the-run from the London mafia, Omi returns to his ancestral village – a place he’d flown from with his grandad’s money and grander ‘London Dreams’. Will Omi be able to hide his failures while chasing love, and the lost recipe of the infamous dish, ‘Chicken Khurana’?
Our read: Tey (2012) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive drama · experimental · mortality entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / experimental, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- inventive
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