What Are The Odds? Review: Netflix Film Doesn't Tick Boxes, It Reinvents Them

Cast: Yashaswini Dayama, Karanvir Malhotra, Abhay Deol, Monica Dogra and Manu Rishi Chadda Director: Megha Ramaswamy Rating: 3.5 stars (Out of 5) A character in What Are The Odds?, now streaming on Netflix, lives in the hope that it will snow in Mumbai one day and she isn't the only oddity in this deliciously enigmatic drama about the joys and pitfalls of the years that bridge the end of childhood and the onset of adulthood.

In Netflix film 'What Are the Odds?', love, hope, music and the magic of the wonder years

Experiences and memories from Megha Ramaswamy's formative years growing up in Pune, crashing rock concerts, imagining she was a bird and generally being a clumsy teenager have found their way into her feature debut What Are The Odds?

Filmmaker Megha Ramaswamy's short 'Bunny' explores childhood fantasies and fears

Filmmaker Megha Ramaswamy's Bunny, a surrealistic short exploring childhood fantasies and fears, is her second consecutive film at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival When Megha Ramaswamy was six, she was fascinated with Hanuman, a monkey worthy of worship and who could fly.

Bunny trailer: Megha Ramaswamy's gem of a short film to compete at TIFF 2015!

Megha Ramaswamy's short film Bunny is competing at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2015 in the category 'Shortcuts'. This is the second consecutive year that the filmmaker is showcasing her work at the prestigious festival. At Also Read - TIFF 2014, Megha had shown Newborns - a short documentary about acid attack survivors.

TIFF Women Directors: Meet Megha Ramaswamy - 'Newborns'

MeghaRamaswamy is a Mumbai-based screenwriter and director. She wrote the screenplayfor the feature film Shaitan, and wroteand directed the fictional short Bunny. (TIFF official site) Her 8-minute documentary shortNewborns, which follows femalesurvivors of acid attacks in India, will play at TIFF on September 13. WaH: Please give us your descriptionof the film playing.

Born Again: A short film salutes the brave spirit of acid attack survivors

In 2005, an acid attack left Nasreen Jahan physically and emotionally scarred. A veil over her face is a reminder of the trauma of that fateful day. But in scriptwriter Megha Ramaswamy's short film Newborns, Nasreen lifts her veil for the first time and speaks freely, looking into the camera, recounting the moments leading up to the attack and the fear and desperation that followed.

HT Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai: Tears greet premiere of film on Rhythm House

mumbai Updated: Feb 11, 2017 00:49 IST When the lights came on at the Coomaraswamy Hall of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj museum on Friday, most of the audience was reaching for their handkerchiefs.

The song is over, but memories of Mumbai's Rhythm House live on in 'The Last Music Store'

Mumbai's best-known music store Rhythm House downed its shutters on March 1. It wasn't the first establishment in the city to sell records, cassettes and CDs and film DVDs, and it isn't the last. But few other store closures have evoked such intense sadness, anger and a sense of loss usually reserved for the passing of a family member.