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‘Our Share of Sand’ Review: A Brooding Indian Social Drama Told Through the Eyes of a Young Girl
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Shalini Adnani's film "Our Share of Sand" is a brooding class drama set against the backdrop of a modern Indian sand-mining crisis. The story follows a 12-year-old British Asian girl named Maya as she travels to India to visit her industrialist family. Despite the somewhat narrow construction of its characters, the film succeeds through its intense and keenly observed perspective.
WHY IT MATTERS
The film offers a child's-eye view of a contemporary sand-mining crisis in India, highlighting themes of class and industrial impact through narrative cinema.
A keenly observed class drama shown through the eyes of a child, Shalini Adnani’s “Our Share of Sand” overcomes its characters’ narrow construction through its brooding intensity. Set against a sand-mining crisis in modern India, it tells of a 12-year-old British Asian girl, Maya (Maya Mehta), who returns to the country to join her industrialist […]
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