I for India

2005

1h 10m

Documentary

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100%

Tomatometer

21 Reviews

93%

Audience Score

500+ Ratings

Yash Pal Suri records his experiences in England and sends them to his relatives back in India.

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Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

A surprisingly delicate, quietly emotional documentary look at the experiences of one Indian family that immigrated to England in the 1960s.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 15, 2008

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Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

Despite its rough-hewn technical aspects, "I for India" emerges as a moving portrait of cultural dislocation and the emotional complexities of family dynamics.

Dec 5, 2007

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

In I for India Sandhya Suri offers her family's immigrant experience as a springboard for questions of nationality and filial responsibility.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 14, 2007

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Aaron Hillis

L.A. Weekly

Sandhya Suri strikes humanist gold in her feature-filmmaking debut.

May 8, 2008

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Michele Kenner

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

It's a tale that many immigrant families around the world could tell, but probably without as much documentation.

Rated: 2.5/4

Apr 4, 2008

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Kent Turner

Film-Forward.com

The best home movies you'll see. Really.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 4, 2008

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A bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, "I for India" is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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I for india Navatarangam Review here http://navatarangam.com/2009/08/i-for-india-telugu-review/

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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maast movie hai bhai log zarur dekhna . ise toh oscar nomination milna chahiye tha

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

A story that any person who leaves their home country for another sometimes better life in another country, can relate to. Even if you move from your home state to another. You can never go back home and sometimes you feel like you belong nowhere.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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It was a very good movie about a family's struggle with leaving their family behind.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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This is a "one of a kind" movie...basically, it is a seventy minute overview of 40 years of home movies between an Indian doctor and his family in England with his family which lives in India. It is very touching, just as you would expect in a situation where family members are separated by many miles. After 17 years in England, the now esteemed doctor returns to India with his family, but by then, they find that they are better suited to live in England. After 9 months, they return to England to stay.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Sandhya Suri

Director

Yash Pal Suri

Self

Carlo Cresto-Dina

Producer

Kai Kuennemann

Producer

Thomas Kufus

Producer

Cinzia Baldessari

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Synopsis

Yash Pal Suri records his experiences in England and sends them to his relatives back in India.

Director: Sandhya Suri
Production Co: Fandango
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Mar 1, 2007
Runtime: 1h 10m