Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid

7.4

/10

1h 35mDrama Family

Two city-bred kids, Shreya (Lehar Khan) and Sam (Krishang Trivedi), travel to their dusty Haryana village for a vacation with their parents. What happens there is an adventure, which comes packed with significant life lessons. It's not the idyllic village of their dreams but a problem-ridden place with dried up ponds, unfriendly villagers, unspoken secrets, out-of-bounds spaces, a child-eating daayan (Witch) and no girls, a reason why wives are imported from other states. In the backdrop of this engrossing adventure, the social issue of female foeticide is subtly interwoven without being preachy and melodramatic.

Spoken language: hi

Starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, Parvin Dabas, Rajendra Gupta, Lehar Khan, Harsh Mayar

Watch "Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid" on Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 2012. It's a drama and family movie, and has a rating of 7.4 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.