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‘Skater Girl’ Review: A Real-Life Skatepark in Rajasthan Grinds Out an Uplifting Drama
Amy Nicholson “Skater Girl” director Manjari Makijany intentionally built a set that would live after she called cut: the first skatepark in Rajasthan, India, where rural children can find freedom and confidence on four wheels, and even mingle beyond their caste. Her gentle drama is a promotional piece for the project from need to execution to totally tubular climactic skateboarding championship, timed, of course, to coincide with the day her teenage heroine Prerna (Rachel Saanchita Gupta) is to be married.There will be no kick-flipping of clichés in Makijany’s script, co-written with her sister Vinati Makijany.
