"Mumbai Baby" - R-Squared Productions

Well that was tragic.

Nice and believable roller coaster of emotions. Nice shots. Good acting.

Not sure if there was supposed to be a deeper message here. Kinda was, and there wasn't.

Is she really 48? Damn good looking woman. Nice noble face and poise.

Very nice film!

Alex
 
You did a good job of shooting this. The audio was pretty hot, had to turn everything down a bit.

The story was good, though I expected a miscarriage. Just not a medical abortion.

My problems were mainly with the acting and perhaps the writing. Some of the dialogue felt stodgy and at times wasn't delivered well. I preferred her acting to his. She felt a bit more natural while he seemed to have a rough go of it at times.

One other point. On the medicine. It was hard to believe that he didn't know she was on medication, considering it was in plain view on the night stand...

Back to story...I felt that the story was a bit dishonest in that the doctor didn't discuss what the medication was for. Perhaps India is FAR different than here, regarding those kinds of things but I have a hard time believing she would give her that kind of medicine without first discussing it.
 
Great production work but the end felt a little abrupt. I too found it hard to believe that the husband wouldn't be aware that his wife was on medication. There were some stiff deliveries of dialogue but overall, it worked. Thanks for sharing!
 
It looked great. Very pro in that regard.

Otherwise, it wasn't doing it for me. I agree with the other comments about dialog and its delivery. I think it was mostly a writing thing. Too much story in too little time which required the dialog to drive the story along, telling us, rather than showing.

One possible fix might have been to cut out the labor scene and ending you have, and make it more about the couple's discovery that this doctor thought she was doing her a favor by prescribing the pills. Then, it leaves us hanging a little and wanting more.

One other nitpick was the sound. If they were in Mumbai, it sure didn't sound like it.

Good effort.
 
Hum...I find the acting comments interesting. I personally thought the acting in this one was all in all not too bad at all, I enjoyed both leads' performances.

I found the doctor's lines very forced however.

I liked the film very much. Kudos!
 
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I liked the whole film. The acting was great. It seemed to me a professional piece of work. The only critic I have to do is, that the end didn't convinced me. It isn't really credible that the indian doctors would give a pregnant woman on purpose that medicine, especially to a person from a western country with a husband in a good and well recognized work position with not that small income (seeing their home). It is known that in India happened many abortions in the last years. Probably also not legal, but that seemed to me too forced.

Susanne
 
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