If the film was in English or set in your country/language?

No one else seen it then?!

Maybe in the beginning but not anymore. Some foreign films are bad, regardless, but they are harder to spot because yes, we tend to subconsciously give them the slack we usually don't to the regular Hollywood fare. It takes a while to get used to telling the difference.

I tried to watch this movie but I don't have the stomach to endure movies about children, esp. those based on facts like this movie. But I considered it a good movie only because for once, India was depicted the way it exactly is and not in songs and dance with gorgeous well dressed made up people.

Well i watched it because i was skimming the channels on TV and it happened to just start. So it wouldn't have mattered if it were in English or not because i would have watched it.

I really liked this movie. It was just one of those movies where it could have ended earlier if it weren't for one stupid mistake the main character did.

No. I would not have switched off. In your case, you did not switch off because it was a foreign film. In my case, I gave the film more importance because it was in my language. Nevertheless, irrespective of the director's nationality, this is how films should be made. People don't generally speak another tongue as shown in Slumdog Millionaire, which I did not like.

I appreciate the director's efforts for keeping the film authentic.

If I have to pick on anything, it's the fact that everyone in their life was a villain. But that's cinema. Things are exaggerated.

I think I get your point. If this was set in any other language, or for that matter, if the protagonists came from a rich background, maybe it would be a random romantic story.

But backgrounds matter. I don't know about your case, but I give more importance to films dealing with real situations that have taken place in history such as the Holocaust, World War II, the Great Depression, various wars, various annexations. Keeping in with these topics, I like this film, set in the backdrop of real pre-independent India (then post), a real red-light area Sonagachi (Asia's second largest red-light area) and some others.

Lovely story, but ultimately a tear-jerker.