Siddharth (2013 film)

{{short description|2013 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Siddharth

| image = Siddharth (2013 film).jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Richie Mehta

| producer = Stephen N. Bray
Richie Mehta
David Miller

| writer = Maureen Dorey
Rajesh Tailang
Richie Mehta

| starring = Rajesh Tailang
Tannishtha Chatterjee

| music = Andrew Lockington

| cinematography = Bob Gundu

| editing = Stuart McIntyre
Richie Mehta

| studio = Poor Man's Productions
Wonderland India

| distributor = Zeitgeist Films
Pinnacle Films

| released = {{Film date|2013|9|10|TIFF|df=yes}}

| runtime = 96 minutes

| country = 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.{{cite web |url=http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/siddharth |title=Siddharth |accessdate=26 August 2013 |work=TIFF}}{{cite web |url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/toronto-adds-75-titles-to-2013-edition-james-franco-alex-gibney-hayao-miyazaki-sean-durkin-and-kevin-macdonald-among-them?page=2 |title=Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition |access-date=26 August 2013 |work=Indiewire|date=13 August 2013 }}

It was notably screened under the "Informative Screening (Feature)" film category at the 2014 Pyongyang International Film Festival in North Korea.{{Cite web |date=2015-11-13 |title=Pyongyang International Film Festival |url=http://www.pyongyanginternationalfilmfestival.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113040125/http://www.pyongyanginternationalfilmfestival.com/ |archive-date=13 November 2015 |access-date=2023-08-02 |website=pyongyanginternationalfilmfestival.com}}

Plot

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A man from Delhi goes out to find his missing son and expects that whoever took him will return him unharmed.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/movies/siddharth-follows-a-fathers-search-for-his-son.html|title='Siddharth' Follows a Father's Search for His Son|last=Holden|first=Stephen|date=26 June 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=9 February 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

Cast

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