Goldfish
2022·Drama·1h 42m
7.1
★
Anamika, the child of a mixed marriage, returns home to her estranged mother Sadhana because she is suffering from the onset of dementia. Ana returns to a neighborhood she barely remembers, to a woman who sometimes doesn’t remember her.
Directed by Pushan Kripalani
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Cast
Kalki Koechlin
Anamika Fields
Deepti Naval
Sadhana Tripathi
Gordon Warnecke
Bobby Persaud
Noa Bodner
Dr. Alice Ferris
Rajit Kapoor
Ashwin Raina
Shanaya Rafaat
Tilottama (Tilly)
Ravin J. Ganatra
Nitin Batra
Komal Amin
Kaveri Natarajan
Ashraf Ejjbair
Gaurav Madan
Omar Khan
Gautam Bose
Popular Reviews
3 reviews
Adil Sayyad
7.0★ · 01/08/25
It's wonderful to see that we’re delving into discussions about caregiving in different forms.
In the film, Anamika (Kalki Koechlin) returns to her mother Sadhana (Deepti Naval) after an alarming incident—her mother, struggling with worsening dementia, accidentally sets a fire. Anamika’s return is met with scepticism and hostility from a neighbour, who perceives her as someone trying to uproot her mother from the community and shirk the responsibility of caregiving.
Kalki Koechlin and Deepti Naval deliver remarkable performances as this estranged mother-daughter pair. Their relationship is complex, filled with layers of resentment yet underscored by a deep, unspoken love. The rawness of their emotions, vulnerability and anger, shines through in their nuanced performances.
The film touches on an important and often overlooked aspect of caregiving: the need for support systems beyond the conventional nuclear family. It subtly highlights how essential different kinds of caregiving are in ensuring the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals, like those suffering from dementia. However, the dialogue at times veers too closely into exposition, leaving little room for the audience to piece things together on their own and I didn't think that it did a good enough job of exploring dementia and the haunting nature of it.
In the film, Anamika (Kalki Koechlin) returns to her mother Sadhana (Deepti Naval) after an alarming incident—her mother, struggling with worsening dementia, accidentally sets a fire. Anamika’s return is met with scepticism and hostility from a neighbour, who perceives her as someone trying to uproot her mother from the community and shirk the responsibility of caregiving.
Kalki Koechlin and Deepti Naval deliver remarkable performances as this estranged mother-daughter pair. Their relationship is complex, filled with layers of resentment yet underscored by a deep, unspoken love. The rawness of their emotions, vulnerability and anger, shines through in their nuanced performances.
The film touches on an important and often overlooked aspect of caregiving: the need for support systems beyond the conventional nuclear family. It subtly highlights how essential different kinds of caregiving are in ensuring the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals, like those suffering from dementia. However, the dialogue at times veers too closely into exposition, leaving little room for the audience to piece things together on their own and I didn't think that it did a good enough job of exploring dementia and the haunting nature of it.
It's wonderful to see that we’re delving into discussions about caregiving in different forms.
In the film, Anamika (Kalki Koechlin) returns to her mother Sadhana (Deepti Naval) after an alarming incident—her mother, struggling with worsening dementia, accidentally sets a fire. Anamika’s return is met with scepticism and hostility from a neighbour, who perceives her as someone trying to uproot her mother from the community and shirk the responsibility of caregiving.
Kalki Koechlin and Deepti Naval deliver remarkable performances as this estranged mother-daughter pair. Their relationship is complex, filled with layers of resentment yet underscored by a deep, unspoken love. The rawness of their emotions, vulnerability and anger, shines through in their nuanced performances.
The film touches on an important and often overlooked aspect of caregiving: the need for support systems beyond the conventional nuclear family. It subtly highlights how essential different kinds of caregiving are in ensuring the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals, like those suffering from dementia. However, the dialogue at times veers too closely into exposition, leaving little room for the audience to piece things together on their own and I didn't think that it did a good enough job of exploring dementia and the haunting nature of it.
In the film, Anamika (Kalki Koechlin) returns to her mother Sadhana (Deepti Naval) after an alarming incident—her mother, struggling with worsening dementia, accidentally sets a fire. Anamika’s return is met with scepticism and hostility from a neighbour, who perceives her as someone trying to uproot her mother from the community and shirk the responsibility of caregiving.
Kalki Koechlin and Deepti Naval deliver remarkable performances as this estranged mother-daughter pair. Their relationship is complex, filled with layers of resentment yet underscored by a deep, unspoken love. The rawness of their emotions, vulnerability and anger, shines through in their nuanced performances.
The film touches on an important and often overlooked aspect of caregiving: the need for support systems beyond the conventional nuclear family. It subtly highlights how essential different kinds of caregiving are in ensuring the safety and well-being of vulnerable individuals, like those suffering from dementia. However, the dialogue at times veers too closely into exposition, leaving little room for the audience to piece things together on their own and I didn't think that it did a good enough job of exploring dementia and the haunting nature of it.
Manognya
8.6★ · 03/25/25
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