Amu

The first half of the movie is light, meandering along with some snippets of everyday city life, of college students in Delhi, some banter and light heartedness as the story proceeds. It is more a gradual unfolding as Kaju slowly learns about her past, and about 1984 from a very naive perspective (like many other people, she didn’t know that it even happened), but gradually learns that she is intrinsically tied to the Sikh riots.

Sunil is at Seattle’s Independent South Asian Film Festival and enjoyed the screening of Shonali Bose’s Amu.