Garbage (film)

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Garbage
Directed by Q
Written byQ
Produced by Shailesh R Singh
Hansal Mehta
Q
Hina Saiyada
Dipankar Chaki
StarringShruthi Viswan
Trimala Adhikari
Tanmay Dhanania
Satarupa Das
Satchit Puranik
CinematographyQ
Lakshman Anand
Edited byHina Saiyada
Music byNeel Adhikari
Production
companies
Karma Media and Entertainment
Oddjoint
Release date
  • 17 February 2018 (2018-02-17)(Berlin)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Garbage is a 2018 drama film written and directed by director Qaushiq Mukherjee (Q). [1] Jointly produced by Mukherjee, Shailesh R Singh, Hansal Mehta, Hina Saiyada and Dipankar Chaki, the film stars Trimala Adhikari, Tanmay Dhanania, Shruti Viswan, Satarupa Das and Satchit Puranik in the lead roles. [2] It was premiered in the panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. [3] The story follows Phanishwar, a taxi driver in Goa who has held a woman captive in his home. He encounters Rami, a victim of revenge porn and their world collide. [4] Garbage became available on Netflix during 2018. [5]

Contents

Cast

Production

Director Qaushiq Mukherjee said that Garbage reflected "the kind of time I was living in for the last two years, personally and social speaking." [4] He began writing the script which was initially titled The fucked. He said that several parts of the film were based on real characters and incidents. The taxi driver and the captive girl were "composites of different people" while the protagonist was based on his friend who had died in 2017. [4] Mukherjee said that the film was mostly unscripted and "workshop-driven." [6] To prepare for his character, Tanmay worked as a production driver for the team for a month. Mukherjee wrote the script while dealing with the deaths of a few close ones when he said he realised that "death is the only reality." [6]

Reception

Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "For lovers of his angry, dreamy, sexually violent aesthetic, Garbage does not disappoint. [7] Jay Weissberg of Variety called it a "tiresome torture porn disguised as a femme-empowering revenge thriller." [8] Anupam Kant Verma of Firstpost wrote: "For a film that wants to stand out from the saccharine infested world of Bollywood, Garbage ends up emulating its black and white, good and evil charms." [9] Soumya Rao of Scroll.in felt that "the shock and horror are not just narrative tools but symptoms of the times in which we live." She also praised Trimala and Tanmay's performance, calling them "fearless". [10]

Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express noted that the film is "sometimes too in-your-face, the way it takes two young women and a man, flings them into terrible situations, and observes them, pitilessly, trying to negotiate those tough tangles." [11] J Hurtado of Screen Anarchy called the film a "bold, no holds barred attack on the hypocrisy of the religious right wing in India today." Further calling it "too violent, too unafraid, and too real to even be considered as a commercial viability." [12] He also included it in his list of 14 Favorite Indian Films of 2018. [13]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Q's Political and Personal 'Garbage' Makes an Impact at Berlin". The Quint. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
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  5. ↑ "Netflix acquires worldwide streaming rights of Qaushiq Mukherjee's psychological thriller Garbage". Firstpost. 23 August 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
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  11. ↑ Gupta, Shubhra (20 February 2018). "Why Everything is Garbage". The Indian Express. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
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  13. ↑ Hurtado, J (3 January 2018). "J Hurtado's 14 Favorite Indian Films of 2018". Screen Anarchy. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
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