Passion has its price.
| Cast |
Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle, Leopold Benedict |
| Director |
Santosh Sivan |
| Screenplay | Cathy Rabin, based on the 2001 film by Dan Verete |
| Music | Mark Kilian |
| Cinematography | Santosh Sivan |
| Editing | Steven Cohen, A. Sreekar Prasad |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| SA distributor | UIP |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | Adirondack Pictures, Echo Lake Productions, Excalibur Pictures, Merchant Ivory Productions, Santosh Sivan Productions |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Very mild, infrequent, no impact |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Implied with suggestive sounds, fairly sensual scene, infrequent |
| Violence | Moderate violence, mild blood, infrequent, also domestic violence. |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Rozanne Els | 10 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 10 | |
| 24.com | 5 |  |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert  I found it refreshing to see a one-level story told with passion and romanticism. | 13 |  |
| eye Weekly Adam Nayman The story and its carefully italicized implications are too pat to be properly unnerving. | 5 | |
| Metacritic.com 19 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 51 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer While lushly photographed and politically suggestive, this soapy melodrama lacks emotional resonance. | 9 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 304 Netizens Dull and Derivative | 13 | |
Average .. 47% | 9 | |