"The storytelling is effortlessly made part of the hypnotically beautiful visuals, and woven into a kaledioscope of colors, faces, music and a little romance. Bhargava is masterful in the way he allows his story to emerge from his mosaic, instead of spelling it out by the numbers. Evokes the old and new Indias side by side as well as I've seen done."
- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN TIMES
"We watch these children of God soar and fall like the kites flown high, each clashing with a threat of cutting loose. Bhargava has a keen sense of universal community and is able to engulf us in this world to show how similar humanity is."
Jared Mobarak, FILM STAGE
"An unexpected, warm and engaging masterpiece. Outstanding camera work - precisely how I shoot my own films!"
- MICHAEL NYMAN, composer & filmmaker
Prashant Bhargava has “a sure hand with his actors, immeasurably enhanced by Biswas' motherly presence whose underlying bittersweetness is salved by a palpable warmth of heart.”
- Jay Weissberg, VARIETY
"Bhargava knows when to stop and catch the right, fleeting expressions and gestures. There’s a gentleness in this snapshot of a family and all its baggage that seems almost effortless.”
- Natasha Senjanovic, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“PATANG is a visually stunning film... Bhargava handles the subject in a quiet gentle way, but shows the tension with his hand held camera and quick edit cuts. Biswas is fantastic as the central figure in the film and truly standsout as the moral compass of the story.”
- Arthur J. Pais, INDIA ABROAD
"As the multiplex era reaches a formulaic state of contemporary Indian Cinema, indie filmmaking continues to take on unchartered mores and widen our sense of cinema with original story telling, honest craft and indulgent passion. Leading this silent brigade is currently is Prashant Bhargava a Chicago native of Indian origin." -