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Life Goes On goes on too long

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Despite being overlong, Sangeeta Datta's debut feature is one of the best non-Bollywood Indian films of its year.

A busy GP (Girish Karnad) finds his wife (Sharmila Tagore) at home dead. He is devastated and his old friend (Om Puri) provides a comforting hand as the good doctor surveys the unorthodox affairs of his three daughters (Mululika Banerjee, Neerja Naik and Soha Ali Khan).

One is married to an English banker, another is possibly a lesbian and the third wants to hitch up with a Muslim. Some of the soft-focus reveries are unwise but the cast are excellent, providing their clearly literate director with truthful characterisations.

Life Goes On
Cert: 12A

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