Village Rockstars

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Village Rockstars

2017

1h 27m

Drama

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A 10-year-old girl living in poverty in a village in Assam, India, dreams of owning a guitar and forming a band with the local boys.

Radheyan Simonpillai

NOW Toronto

Kids pass the time climbing trees or sinking into the marsh, Das's camera capturing them as lively extensions of nature.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 31, 2019

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Barry Hertz

Globe and Mail

Village Rockstars is confident and sincere, its story unfolding at a languid but controlled pace.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jan 31, 2019

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Namrata Joshi

The Hindu

The most appealing is the persistence and simplicity with which Das subverts gendered expectations and norms.

Sep 28, 2018

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Dipankar Sarkar

Vague Visages

Rima Das captures the milieu of the film with a fundamentally holistic aesthetic and her quest for realism in its purest form.

Sep 21, 2023

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Olly Richards

Sunday Times (UK)

Beautifully played and naturalistically directed.

Sep 13, 2022

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Kanishk Devgan

Film Companion

It tackles gender, identity, rural India, and passion through a personal lens, with Das's family playing much of the

Mar 29, 2021

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Rima Das's Village Rockstars rocks the mind with it's simplicity, its purity. It bellows through its silence and drowns you in its storyline just to visualise underneath the silence, underneath the poverty, lies the life, lies the dreams. For full review, visit sheerexperience.wordpress.com

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Excellent directions and story

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Synopsis

A 10-year-old girl living in poverty in a village in Assam, India, dreams of owning a guitar and forming a band with the local boys.

Director: Rima Das
Producer: Rima Das
Screenwriter: Rima Das
Production Co: Flying River Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Assamese
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 4, 2019
Runtime: 1h 27m