![]() ![]() ![]() It is so ironic that I saw this film at a time when New Zealand is preparing for the upcoming elections This film appeared so minimalist yet was nothing short of a funny edge-of-the-seat thriller.Want to behold the glory that is ' Newton' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Amit Masurkar-directed movie via subscription can be a huge pain, so we here at Moviefone want to do right by you. If main-stream Bollywood films don't attract a foreign fan-following, art-house festival circuit low-budget films certainly will. I want Indian films to have a global audience. Because this was a festival film, I saw this film with a primarily Kiwi audience which is always a great thing. The film is infused with dark humour from start to finish and Rajkumar Rao is nothing short of a brilliant actor. Everything in cinema is a matter of perspective. Which is why when you see this film, you will wonder if the protagonist is actually the antagonist. While his intentions were good, his method of executing them was questionable. His namesake in this film seemed no different. I had read somewhere that Isaac Newton, the genius scientist, was actually a very complicated man. ![]() ![]() In a nutshell, this film is about an election officer who takes the responsibility of going into a forest ridden with armed revolutionaries in order to collect votes from the local residents. This film was screened at Cannes and I guess this is the second festival after the Festival de Cannes where it is being showcased. I saw this fabulous Indian film called "Newton" last night which by the way is the only Indian film to be screened at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival. ![]()
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