It is hazardous to lavishly praise a film by a young
director; it might go to his head. In the case of 28-year-old Chaitanya
Tamhane, director of the Marathi film Court, the risk is worth taking.
Four years earlier, at 24, he made Six Strands, a short
film, a fictional take on the tea industry around Darjeeling district in West
Bengal. It was centred on a gifted but evil woman who could have stepped out of
the magic realism fiction of Latin America. It was full of technical tricks
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