Hank And Asha (2014)
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Cast
as Asha
as Hank
as Bartender
as Student
as Anne
as Waitress
as Baptiste Moreau-French Waiter
as Himself
as Security Guard
as Prague Bar Patron
as Prague Bar Patron
as Prague Bar Patron
as Prague Bar Patron
as Prague Bar Patron
as Lower East Side Bar Patron
as Lower East Side Bar Patron
as Lower East Side Bar Patron
Critic Reviews for Hank And Asha
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The conceit is old-fashioned: hey, people falling in love long-distance! But the modern renovation confers a mild obnoxiousness.
Like the film itself, Kakkar and Pastides are lively, adorable and thoroughly winning.
As easy as it is to like Hank and Asha, it's impossible to look past the many screenwriting and filmmaking flaws of the film about them.
Though not very ambitious, this winsome, whisper-thin tale shimmers along with the charming urge to connect and reveal yourself that links its two correspondents.
This two-hander doesn't feature much more than its leads speechifying to their cameras, a challenging basis for visual storytelling.
As if it were necessary, here's a film that proves that placing two characters in completely separate locations marks a shaky premise.
Audience Reviews for Hank And Asha
Hank and Asha's video penpal friendship starts off enchanting as hell, but the sweet yet staid gimmick eventually commits storytelling suicide. The entire movie is told in back and forth video diaries, and at no point does the narrative structure break into real time or real exigence. By the middle-end, the previously low-stakes conflict blows up into go-to cultural misunderstanding and an unsatisfying, open-ended ending. Mahira Kakkar is doe-eyed and beguiling as Asha, an Indian film student studying in Prague, and frankly, her letters are livelier and more interesting than Hank's. Andrew Pastides is fine as Hank, but both actor and character rub me the wrong way. Perhaps it's the glassy blue eyes and the self-deprecating mien that projects a Nice Guy sensitivity but actually belies the garden-variety narcissist underneath who prides himself on being such a Nice Guy. I just had to groan and laugh at that vociferous letter in which he bellows at Asha to reject her arranged marriage because he understands her more than her fiancée does (presumably). Really? What does he truly understand about her or her culture?
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