The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (2020) User Reviews

"Lazy to use their brains,madness reins all over."

[morrison-dylan-fan · 6/10 · 12 April 2021]

After watching the stylish Costume Drama Charlatan (2020-also reviewed) I decided to check what else was featured on the Borderlines film festival line-up. Finding the details about it being based around seven songs to sound enticing, I decided to join the shepherdess.

View on the film:

Revealing in a interview after the screening/stream that this is the first in a Kashmir trilogy of films he has planned, writer/director Pushpendra Singh is joined by cinematographer Ranabir Das in weaving a lyrical atmosphere over the shepherdess, from floating panning shots across the misty mountains, descending onto close-ups of Tanvir and Laila (played with a wonderful, hazy poetic quality by Navjot Randhawa-who also starred in the off-beat Horror Kriya (2020-also reviewed.)

Based around seven songs, the screenplay by Singh is one that plays lively in segments,but unlike the best concept albums, does not come together as a grand tapestry,due to the drama of Laila breaking away from her Gujjar-Bakarwal tribe and setting off with Tanvir to the valley,feeling disconnected from the ensuring propositions Laila confronts from locals in the valley,as she sings seven songs.

Stereotypical, Boring.

[erangordon1998 · 4/10 · 14 December 2020]

Another feminist foreign film. I'm bored. maybe filmmakers should to making their characters have more depth than Oppressor/Opressed Dynamic. I've seen too many feminist films that portray society as black and white and its not like that. the males are portrayed awfully and you just hate them. they're not deep. there is no good and evil in reality, and the filmmaker should know that.

P.S well made tho, good looking shots.