Siddharth (2013 film)

Siddharth
Siddharth
	Film poster
Directed by	Richie Mehta
Written by	Maureen Dorey; Rajesh Tailang; Richie Mehta
Produced by	Stephen N. Bray; Richie Mehta; David Miller
Starring	Rajesh Tailang; Tannishtha Chatterjee
Cinematography	Bob Gundu
Edited by	Stuart McIntyre; Richie Mehta
Music by	Andrew Lockington
Production; companies	Poor Man's Productions; Wonderland India
Distributed by	Zeitgeist Films; Pinnacle Films
Release date	10 September 2013 (TIFF);
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	India; Canada
Language	Hindi

Siddharth is a 2013 Indian-Canadian drama film directed by Richie Mehta. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It depicts the story of a man who sends his son to work in a distant land for money who later goes missing.^[1]^[2]

It was notably screened under the "Informative Screening (Feature)" film category at the 2014 Pyongyang International Film Festival in North Korea.^[3]

Plot

A man from Delhi goes out to find his missing son and expects that whoever took him will return him unharmed.^[4]

Cast

Rajesh Tailang as Mahendra Saini
Tannishtha Chatterjee as Suman Saini
Anurag Arora as Ranjit Gahlot
Shobha Sharma Jassi as Meena Gahlot
Geeta Agrawal Sharma as Roshni
Amitabh Srivasta as Om Prakash
Mukesh Chhabra as Mukesh Bhai
Khushi Mathur as Pinky Saini
Irfan Khan as Siddharth / Chai Kid / Kamathipura Child
Salony Luthra as a train passenger

References

^ "Siddharth". TIFF. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
^ "Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition". Indiewire. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
^ "Pyongyang International Film Festival". pyongyanginternationalfilmfestival.com. 13 November 2015. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Holden, Stephen (26 June 2014). "'Siddharth' Follows a Father's Search for His Son". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 February 2018.