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    'Photograph' Captures Romance Blossoming Across Mumbai's Class Divide

    The writer/director of 2013's crowd-pleasing romance The Lunchbox returns with another heartwarming tale of unlikely love the crowded streets of Mumbai.
    by Ella Taylor May 16, 2019 3 minutes
    <em></em>In <em>Photograph, </em>a street photographer (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) tries to get Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) to pose as his fiancee.

    In Ritesh Batra's new film, , a villager scrabbling to make a living on the streets of Mumbai falls for a well-heeled young stranger whom he's persuaded to pose as his fiancée in order to please his grandmother. That hook is a durable staple of Hollywood and Bollywood movies alike, and both industries leave a strong footprint on Batra's mildly arthouse love stories. If you've seen the director's genial, if skin-deep 2014, you'll know him as a storyteller who's preoccupied with romance across social and geographical divides.

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