Genre: Drama
Starring: Aida Elkashef, Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Shah, Faraz Khan, Sameer Khurana, Vinay Shukla
Bollywood has always been known to churn out entertainers and never been able to come up with serious movies with being technically sound and have wide critical acclaim. Ship of Theseus has been one of those rare gems that Bollywood has removed that has been revered world-wide. Aaliya Kamal (Elkashef) is an Arabic girl who is visually impaired but yet a highly celebrated photographer residing in Mumbai, India. She is dependent on her boyfriend, Vinay (Khan) to interpret her images and help her in her career. Maitreya (Kabi) is a monk who is fighting the large corporates in court against animal testing. When diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, he has to take medication from those very same people he is against if he wishes to survive. Navin (Shah) is a stock broker whose ailing mother tries to motivate him to do something good that impacts society and not simply chase money. He learns of a bricklayer whose kidney has been stolen when he underwent an appendix operation and feared that his own kidney might have belonged to him. Along with his friend Mannu (Khurana) he takes it upon himself to track down the theft and find the bricklayers kidney. The movie talks about organ transplant and how individuals have been affected by it. The movie is slow and takes it's own time to develop with very long shots. Having been shot with non-professional equipment, the movie gives the feel of something low-budget and amateurish but yet spectacular. A good movie to watch, but you need to be patient. If intellectual art movies are not your thing then forget about it, else it is lovely for the rest.
Thumbs up: Fabulous story and performances
Thumbs down: A bit too long and some unwanted long shots
Rating: 7.7/10
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