When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
Acting
Riz Ahmed's chilling charm-to-rot arc.
Cinematography
Rajasthan's beauty as cruel contrast.
Direction
Winterbottom refuses easy moral exits.
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Winterbottom transplanted Hardy's 1891 novel to modern India, where caste and class still trap women in eerily similar ways.
Freida Pinto filmed this right after Slumdog—she essentially played opposite versions of the same fantasy: slum girl saved by rich man, but here it's a horror story.
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