Videsh

Videsh is about love and change, imaginatively plunged in fantasy and incredible Indian mysticism. It's also a film that explores female power and the female ability to communicate, even across worlds, as any "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus" fanatic could tell you as well. What this film is not about, is an understanding of domestic abuse.

Sure, the violence in Videsh is cold, hard-hitting and ugly. It's so strong on Zinta's childish frame that it makes you feel angry and horrified. Yet the violent references are made as trivially as some directors would make, say, a....