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Trishna

2011 · 117 min

A quietly devastating watch, sunlit and beautiful on the surface while a slow, suffocating control tightens around a young woman with nowhere to turn.

Genres
Drama, Romance
Overview
When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • class
  • isolation
  • betrayal
  • trauma
Places
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism8
Romance4
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
Written by
Michael Winterbottom
Starring
Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Mita Vashisht, Harish Khanna, Roshan Seth, Leela Madhauram, Chanchal Sharma, Shweta Tripathi Sharma
Music
Amit Trivedi, Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography
Marcel Zyskind
Runtime
117 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Hindi

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