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Movie Info

Vichare (Arun Nalawade) takes care of his young grandson Parashuram (Ashwin Chitale). So, when the boy begins having trouble with his vision, Vichare is the one who brings him to Mumbai, India, to see a specialist. The doctor offers a devastating diagnosis: The boy has retinal cancer. In order to live, Parashuram will have to undergo an operation that will render him blind. As the date of the operation looms near, Vichare struggles to find a way to tell the boy the horrible truth.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Unknown language
Director:

Sandeep Sawant
Writer:

Sandeep Sawant
Box Office (Gross USA):

$1.0K
Runtime:

1h 47m
Production Co:

Universal/Universal Int

Cast & Crew

Arun Nalawade
Keshavram Shantaram Vichare

Sandeep Kulkarni
Dr. Sane

Ashwin Chitale
Parshuram "Parshya" Vichare

Amruta Subhash
Ashawari

Ganesh Manjrekar
Divakar

Ashwini Giri
Mrs. Vichare

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Critic Reviews for Breath

All Critics (5) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3)

While the film sometimes plays like an hour TV medical drama padded to reach feature length, Sawant achieves touching, naturalistic performances from a fine ensemble cast.

January 6, 2005

Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
An old-fashioned soaper that will please or not, depending on a viewer's tolerance for schmaltz.

December 10, 2004 | Rating: 2/4

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
Mr. Sawant does his best to balance hopeful sentiment with the depressing prospect of a child's world going dark, and he tries to infuse this simple melodrama with a sense of tenderness and beauty.

December 9, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

A.O. Scott
New York Times
Takes a potential hot-button premise -- the callous indifference of the Indian medical bureaucracy toward the lower classes -- and dramatizes it in the most shameless way possible.

December 8, 2004

Ben Kenigsberg
Village Voice
The simple story strains to maintain a run time that is already far shorter than the Indian film norm.

February 27, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com