Indians in Cowtown

Donkeyhead is one of those 'estranged siblings come together to be with their terminally ill father' movies. However, it adds nothing new to the conversation. It is heavily targeted towards a South Asian audience in terms of culture, references, and what the characters considers "taboo," but falls flat for the general audience. At the same time the characters try really hard to prove to us that they're assimilated (there is a very pointless scene where they insist on singing O Canada in a bar). The conversations and relationships feel very contrived. And Kim Coates existence in this film feels like a called in favour to add a recognizable name to the cast.

The main character, Mona, spends a lot of the time brooding like an angsty teenager in a 30 something body and doesnt grow much as a character throughout the film. The writer & director stars as the main character so I assume that is how she wanted the character to come off. The end of the movie also drags on forever, at several points I thought the credits were going to roll only to be met with more and more ineffective scenes.

Great job in terms of representation, and the production quality was decent. But in terms of story, I question why this was a story they felt like they needed to tell... or maybe it was great and timely, but just not geared towards a broad audience.

This was a pretty good story about siblings going through the inevitable death of a cancerous father. The judgemental attitudes of relatives who are in or have never been in a position to judge anything or anyone is absurd at best. An accurate deduction of gaslighting nobody relatives.

We shall all die, just as we where born, sikh or not, a canadian family drama, about the family guru walking his last steps towards eternity, mended and taken care for by the black fowl of the family through seven long years, and pushed and plagued in a heartful and felt comedy, when the rest of the scavanger siblings and family comes to share the leftovers when death comes about.

A well acted, good casted and solid filmproduct if you care or feels curious for love, life and the eternal death issues that rules a family when the result of a life shall be accounted for, and inheritance split splatt or spread like the ashes into the river rubicon.

An atmosphere that us old grumpy ones may feel familiar, even me , and may be a nice curricular movie for all them making their testament etc. Etc.. so a recommend on this one.

This is a low budget film that is just a mass of confusion. The acting is at the level of a high school drama club or maybe community theater. The story drags on at a slow pace that causes a loss on interest. It seems to be targeted towards a Desi audience and will probably have most of its appeal among that group.

Agam Darshi steals the show along with Stephen Lobo, Donkey Head captures the nuances of complicated relationships between 2nd gen south Asian families. A needed insight to the culture displaying imperfection, while interweaving hidden societal expectations usually only reserved to those who are... Indian. I'm addition to a wrenching story, it's a film is not just for white audiences but also shares something familiar and unseen for Indian people. It's a realistic view that doesn't display our people as Bollywood tree going performers and cheesy lovers.