Story balancing murky realism with elements of fantasy, like all good stories (e.g Mahabharata and the Irish stories contemporary with it such as "The Cattle Raid of Cooley", Deirdre, Bricriu and Oisin The streets of Bombay are, to European eyes, unrelieved misery, but if they befriend the street-dwellers they find dreams and aspirations that overcome reality. The more bullies crush, the more lively are the dreams. The world of the gang master is brutally portrayed, but the film, with its central actor, seizes on the image of a Scottish mountain to animate the dream of a child who prefers seeking that impossible image to grinding out a street-life without hope. A well scripted and well acted film.
Review of Elephant Boy
