Siddharth

"This year has given Western audiences diverse experiences based on Indian culture, from easy heart-warming fluff (The Hundred-Foot Journey) to medium-level thought-provoking crowd-pleasers (The Lunchbox). Well prepare yourself for Hard Mode, because Siddharth confronts a dark and depressing reality that will likely – and unfortunately – turn off fans of those previous two broadly-appealing films."

"Mehta's engrossing, multi-layered film is a movingly handled story of a child's disappearance."

"Its portrayal of impoverished, careworn people barking at one another and protecting their territory in a daily struggle is bracingly hardheaded."

"A film of subdued but mounting panic and grief - an unsentimental portrait of poverty in contemporary India and of a benighted man's efforts to understand the world beyond his workaday struggles."

"This quietly impassioned indictment of child-labor takes its time to get going but then builds steadily to a surprisingly strong finale."