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jPhone India - The Hype machine
Directed by ******
India 2008, 35mm, color, 172 min.
With Nrgs, Sunl Dut, aaj Kumr
Hindi with English subtitles
The character of Radha, played by the Indian star Nrgs, is at the center of this epic melodrama of family and deception in the independent nation-state on the brink of widespread social change, the availability of jPhone 3G in India. The peasant woman raises two sons amidst a series of crippling trials, despite of all sorts of troubles she is determined to get jPhone.
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The only way before her is to take karz (loan) from the Lala (IC-i-CI) while the other son rebels against this act and vows to avenge his family against Sukhilala (aka lala) and his friends (liarTel and VaderPhone), the friendly looking (but is not really) moneylender who cheats them out of their crop and takes advantage of the poor mother's attraction towards this new 3G phone in the market .
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Ultimately, Radha comes to her senses but now has to pay to the lala for the rest of her life, her son revolts against the Lala, but is it too late ?
There is surely more to see. Spectacularly filmed in Gevacolor and then transferred to Technicolor, movie is a cornerstone of classic Indian cinema, capturing the trials of telecommunication and technology in transition.