Odyssey of Persistence

Odyssey of Persistence is an excellent short-story centered on a homeless boy named Mangalya or "Holy", who makes it big in the Engineering Admission test in the face of extreme odds.

A group of friends in the city of Ahmedabad, India are preparing for their 12th grade examinations, all, but one carefree bloke, Sagar, played by Sagar Ambre, ironically, an engineering student himself. Sagar is anything but bothered about his upcoming exams, his interest lying somewhere else. Academic books are nothing but a bunch of printed paper for Sagar who is ready to even dispose them off.

Mangalya (played by Nikunj Pathak), the chief character of the story, on the other hand is a homeless boy desperate to study hard and clear the Engineering Admission test to fulfill the dreams of his late Muslim guardian who has nurtured him ever since he found him abandoned and alone. Seeing Sagar willing to give away his books, he approaches Sagar and requests him to give him the books instead to study. Sagar, ever the carefree guy, does not think a second before casually handing over his books to the penniless boy. The two soon become fast friends and Sagar brings Mangalya even more books to prepare for the Engineering exams. On a visit to Magalia's "home", he finds out more about him and sympathizes with him. A fascinating sequence leads to a thrilling climax, leaving everyone tearful in awe of a determined Mangalya.

The movie is a wonderful effort from youth with little formal training in Film Making and is Hollywood blockbuster stuff. The movie has a clear secular and positive message- firstly, humanity knows no boundaries and that poverty need not be an impediment in the path to success. Nikunj Pathak, Sagar Ambre and team have done a fantastic job .They have wonderfully portrayed a story of persistence, determination and positivity, and they certainly do this without sounding too preachy or elaborate.

Brilliant film, awesome line, wonderful plotting. Saw this film in a screening, the atmosphere was too good. Proud to have the film makers like them in our industry. What a vision. The buy struggling towards success just inspires everyone in trouble to hard hard with their luck. Bit mistakes in editing but that can be understood as for new makers. Much much better then any stupid Hindi films now. You will be forced to see this film more then once for sure. The actors Sagar is just good with his way and Mangalya is the best actor. Nisha too handles the situation good. Di-spite of three main characters in the film everyone is balanced perfectly. No boredom anyway in the film, very good background music would like to see more from the team of Odyssey of Persistence.

No doubt that i would not like it. good job, really brought tears in my eyes as i said. The film should have been bit more big. I totally loved it. The acting, writing and everything was just too good. Sagar belongs to my village and i m happy for him. But you don;t try acting more Sagar, i am sure those who know you might have disliked your acting, because you are not like what it is shown in the film. Now next time make a hi-fi film like big films. I although hate this film industry and don't like much to watch films, but i like your film very much. Reviewing here is not so easy as i have to write ten lines minimum, but its worth writing for such a film. Cheers to the team and hope to see more and more films of yours Sagar.

The film is really good to watch after. Something that one would not get to see in US. For sure one of the film that should US film makers focus on making in. Such subjects are found very rare to the floor of US. Been a student of NYFA i would surely appreciate the vision and would surely make such films in future as my career began. India to going towards producing quality writers though in lesser quantity. But the time would be soon when US writers will be looking towards Non-US writers. Visions need to be widened for focusing on cinematic liabilities. The only problem i sought with the film was a bit in the making. of course director's went wrong somewhere but the writers did their job aptly. Overall 10/10 and a nice film to watch for an aspiring film/TV writer.

Though i felt that the film had lots of defects, but been a short subject film, i think i can appreciate it. The main essence of a short subject and short duration film is to showcase the raised issue/topic in the taken short time. Though the photography seems to be bit weak but cant blame the writers for some quick and strict lines. At some occasions it seems that the film was made only because i guess they could write the dialog good enough to allow the viewers to stick to the screen. It didn't faded out at any time despite of seeming to be what is not expected, a low of energy film. Acting was bit poor, they should have hired fewer better facial expressive actors especially the lead two characters. Overall I rated it 9 of 10 as i liked the issue raised and the way it was driven. Hope they would learn from the mistakes done over here and the DOP should get himself technically clean. Editing needs to be brushed. Good concept with bit weaker presentation. Can be surely watched once.