Road, Movie

Road, Movie

2010 · 95 min · ★ 5.5 · Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama

Vishnu has a bleak future before him, he must join his father in the family's oil business and try and boost the sales of the stinking oil in small town India. He sees his chance to escape by offering to transport a ramshackle truck, with a make-shift cinema, to a distant museum that lies across the expansive desert of Kutch. His companions: a chai-wallah chokra, a gypsy girl and a burlesque mechanic.

Directed by Dev Benegal · Written by Dev Benegal

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