Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

rkeswani This movie is a mind-boggling mix of all of life's problems thrown into two hours. Spoilers ahead. One witnesses cerebral palsy, sexual repression, lack of infrastructure for the differently-abled in India, some cultural insensitivity to differently-abled in India, lack of understanding of homosexuality in conservative societies, India vs Pakistan (perhaps Bangladesh), Racism against colored people in USA, being physically blind and finally, if that was not enough, death due to cancer. But the movie did not make me wailing-sad, it made me understated-sad and I walk away in total admiration for Kalki and Shonali.

papukamakshi Everything about "Margarita with a Straw" is worthy of note. I loved the storyline, the treatment of it, the portrayal by the actors of their respective characters, and the development of the theme of physical disability and how individuals cope and live their lives to the fullest. When the film ended, I did feel a lump in my throat, especially when I read the dedication by Shonali Bose. I personally understood a few things better about cerebral palsy after I saw this film, and that has made an impression on me. Yet, when it was all done, I had a feeling that I had seen a fine documentary rather than a feature film. The flat realism of the narration distanced me from the destinies of the characters, and the jagged pacing of the screenplay hindered a deep involvement with the emotions of the very attractive characters. I wondered, too, why the main characters had to experience a full hand of exceptional circumstances—being affected by cerebral palsy, she is bisexual, her romantic partner is blind, and her mother is in a serious situation. These loaded circumstances of the main character's life made the film's focus thin. As for the acting, kudos to just about everyone.I was pleasantly surprised that the tiresome Hindi film style of portraying a person with disablities was entirely dropped, and the director wisely avoided histrionics. I am glad I saw it, even if I don't rate the film as great cinema.

Kotni Srikant Kudos to the team who went deeply into the hearts of the physically and mentally disabled people for knowing their life. Some people choose their life in their own way and some don't have choices Kalki a talented music composer is very confused in her relationship being a mentally challenged girl all she wants who should take proper care of her. Initially she had a normal relation , then comes the homosexual part , then Bisexual and at last being asexual . Kalki a brave character tells the world even a gay or a lesbian or a normal person carry emotions with them. Every one should have done a "Yeh Jawani Yeh Deewani" but "Margaritta with a straw" none other than Kalki would have done it. Matured acting , brilliant direction and superb star cast made the movie worth watching at the theatre.

raja-mishra7 t was a overflow of emotion to see things that one goes through expressed in form of a motion picture. For the first time in the history of Indian Films comes a movie that explores the desires, feelings and sexual expressions of people with disability, it speaks for how they think of themselves as no different or lesser beings, more so because they would have already overcome the disabilities that other hold on to. To consider them as lesser beings is meaner depletion than differentiating on the basis of religion, race or caste, or must I say it's actually worse. Margarita with a Straw criticizes the hypocritical mindset and lack of understanding and insensitive infrastructural apathy in India that has been a hurdle to inclusion. How only the family and some prized friends are the only ray of hope in the darkness. It also brings to our focus a pathetic mindset that is in the rise in the deep pockets of our social fabrics: they are not like us, they should not dare think of themselves as equals. I myself have been subjected to belittling time to time- that has helped remind me that there is a condition that I have, which despite being infrastructure inspired is inadvertently indented up on me as a fault of mine. Most people in the sense of false physical superiority forget that a person only has a limitation- disability is with those minds that can see no further than the limitation and also with the infrastructure that has been, if at all anything, negligently indifferent. Having spoken for the message it intended to convey, the film- first of all is a brilliant incident of superb acting skills at display, a rarity for Indian films. Kalki has perhaps left behind Naseeruddin Shah and some other stalwarts who have portrayed a person with disability in past. Sayani Gupta too was extraordinary in her rendition of a girl with vision disability. Revathi was the best in the lot though. The director had a sparkling and straightforward vision and smooth narratives in place for a script that, must I say, lacked grandeur from content's prospective. The story was found wanting in exploring some true but harsh social aspects of disability. Not to mention I found it a bit aimless time and again. The troubles, social and infrastructural, have been brought forward but in a rather too subtle a style. Social constrains and how the emotional ambitions of people with disability is ruthlessly curbed by some unconcerned of people living ignorantly in our society has not be explored much. A drastic contrast is rendered through a comparison of accommodating capacity with us and that of the West through a case of expression and acceptance of love of/for a disabled as an affection.