Photograph: press conference with Ritesh Batra and stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Sanya Malhotra

(Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Ritesh Batra, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)

By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER

Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra have an understated chemistry on-screen in Ritesh Batra's Photograph, without any unnecessary sentimentality that could have made this film feel a bit kitschy. Batra's script has so much heart it's very hard not to walk out of this film without some sense of self-reflection and wonderment. 

(Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Ritesh Batra, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)

The interpreter for Nawazuddin was quite good although Malhotra also helped Nawazuddin with some translation.

(Interpreter, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)

The two actors appear to get along quite well. Photograph made it's European premiere on February 13, 2019 at Friedrichstadt Palast.