Shivamma

• Jaishankar Aryar
• 104 min
• India
• 2022
• Fiction

An entrepreneurial woman decides to join a scam operation that offers quick riches to gullible villagers in this wonderful parody about pyramid schemes.

With a bedridden husband and a daughter to marry-off, Shivamma decides that ‘Nuracle’, a bogus food supplement, is going to help her overcome her financial problems. Her initial attempts to flog it to neighbours and prospective suitors for her daughter’s hand, come to naught. But despite various setbacks, the indomitable matriarch soldiers on trying to sell to the neighbouring villages and beyond, this cure for everything from baldness to erectile dysfunction. The film has several laugh-out loud moments, and its dead-pan humour enhances the tragi-comic plight of its characters.

- Asha Richards

• Drama
• Landsbygd
• Kapitalism
• Familj
• Samhälle
• Social utsatthet