Chingari

Chingari has an old-world feel to it - like those Doordarshan teleserials that targeted rural audiences and sought to dispense some wholesome entertainment with a message. There is the heroic village postman who proselytizes in verse, the prostitutes who describe their sorry state with the articulation of a social-activist, the lover who hasn't the tiniest speck of impure lust lady-love. There are stereotypes galore, and though they stretch themselves sometimes to graze the truth, they invariably relapse into laughable triteness.

Through all those pitfalls, though, this is a uni....